Prynt Pocket iPhone Zink Printer REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- A review of the Prynt Pocket - A portable photo printer for the iPhone. It can be purchased from Amazon
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Hey um... Could you post a link to the bus meme picture? Asking for a friend...
We shall make it go viral!
YES
If you really want it - I've just uploaded a copy on my website www.techmoan.com/blog/2017/8/12/review-prynt-pocket-iphone-photo-printer.html
Much appreciated! We'll spread it far and wide, much like the more successful pieces of technology you've covered on your channel 😉
This is a bus. It serves Finger Bacon Butty.
Next video will feature unknown German Hi-Fi equipment from the fifties?
Probably 60s Japan.
But can you root the Tefifon? :P
Can it run Crysis
@mip....
I did plan on looking at the Instax Square when it was first announced, but once that price was revealed...it's way up there, so I thought there wouldn't be much interest.
On the subject of Instax Square: no need to review it. It is brilliant. I bought one. It can print photos from the iPhone or iPad - but it involves an awkward process of putting the images on a micro sd card, so it involves a computer. The fun thing is that you can use the Square not only as a printer, but also as a camera. Downside: You would need an extra "long complain" puppet section at the end of the review video though : too expensive, too small a picture, not a real instant camera, it is not a real Polaroid, I can not print the iPhone pictures from the sd card because I did not bother to read the fine print of the user guide, i don't like Square images, I don't like fun things, etc, etc. So really no need to review it :-) I bought mine and it does what I like it to do. PS: Fuji, please put some Wifi in it and I will consider buying another one.
I secretly think TechMoan's day job is fashion advisor. Always dressed sharp.
Having to create an account is a deal breaker. You should not need an online account to use a printer. If they want to offer additional features that should be optional. This kind of thing is against the app store terms of service but apple never enforce their own rule on this.
This is due to the fact that you upload the mini-video's to their "cloud" which are later interactively displayed in augmented reality form. As long as they don't sell your account info to other parties I have no problems with it. I believe that if you disallow internet access you'd still be able to print.
Cascade: yeah, I won't be running out and buying this thing any time soon. A piece of hardware, whether it be a printer or something else, needs to work without any "registration" process and without some third party's "cloud". Sure they can offer optional internet based services but it can't be a requirement. And to EPDM I say that whether they sell your info or nit is irrelevant, they have no business having my info in the first place.
Maxx Fordham listen at about 8:37
Maxx Fordham what are you on? I'm not talking nor referring to any "possession" at all.
Errant pedantry abound. Is that you, Chris-Chan?
Techmoan is the perfect blend between old tech, new tech and random cool stuff
This is a bus. It serves food.
Repost.
We need that meme to get people confused. And then Techmoan gets more views. It's a win-win
What do you mean
Expensive, obligatory account, thermal paper, bad design and crappy app
You would have to pay me to use this thing.
Does the image disappear if you heat it after taking?
THIS IS A BUS
IT SERVES FOOD
Why the hell does the app need to be able to send push notifications? Or an account?
Screw that.
because it uploads videos and photos to a cloud service to allow playback of AR photos, the push notifications are for when you plug your phone in to it, it needs to send a confirmation that you want to open the app (yes, that's a push notification).
Then why the F*CK does it need access to your microphone ?
I'm guessing because it can record video too
He mentions and shows in the video it can record video as well, and then recognize screenshots from those videos. It didnt really work for him tho
Al coholic for the video recording
I really love your videos, Techmoan. They're so professionally made, your reasonings are always sound and come from a place of experience, and you fully disclose things (sponsorship, sourcing, potential biases). Plus, the entertainment section of the video is fun and optional for those who don't like it, and there for those of us that do.
I wish all RUclips content creators were like you, sir.
*"I can't see this becoming a massive meme."*
Oh you underestimate the power of the internet.
Why was there a key symbol at the corner of all the photos? For example 6:42 12:23
I kept wanting to ask the same question.
I really don't know. It's printed on all the pics whether there's an embedded video or not.
Google to the rescue then twitter.com/prynt/status/680576389599211520?lang=en
"...the key means there's a video in it..."
19:23 She: "You haven't thought about it but you make your mind up", He: "Yeah it saves time"..... Brilliant :) ROFL!
The AR feature looks pretty cool.
Shame it doesn't quite work! Or didn't, anyway. Maybe it's better now...?
Still a p.o.s. product. Thermal paper invariably fade after just a few years no matter how well stored.
How can you criticize Techmoan after all the efforts he puts in his videos. You're a horrible person.
lol wut? :)
The heck are you on about? they said nothing about techmoan, just the product being reviewed
He wasn't commenting on the quality of Techmoan's video, just the product. If anything he was applauding the videos presentation of the device thru the use the word "still".
i do hope lovable critters was being sarcastic.
You could print almost a thousand pictures, with perfect colors, with a professional printing service for the price of the printer alone. Never mind the absurdly overpriced ZINK paper.
i'll wait for the Windows Phone version...
*tumbleweed*
He he heh, the puppets were especially spot on this time! And I say that as an Android user. I think some people want to feel better about themselves by sneering at other people's choices.
I come for the informative tech-talk, but stay for the childish, unfunny puppets.
i wonder why wouldn't the designer of this product simply make this as a standalone peripheral and write a separate app with all the features and interface wirelessly since its not powered by the phone itself.
also makes more sense when they could also develop an app for Android users to capture a wider audiences.
Good job! Loved the characters at the end... by the way I noticed the printed photos are cropped even more as compared to what's on the screen... I also wonder whether pulling down cyan and pulling up magenta in colour correction would improve printed colour. In newsprint, as in newspaper printing, we had to pull up cyan and pull down magenta each by around 20% to achieve better colour rendition. This was very typical at the time anyway.
I liked the puppets this video, very funny
19:28 Well, and the Muppets. ;)
Why is there a little key symbol printed on the bottom right of every picture? That would annoy me.
Why does it need to be physically connected to the phone like that? Bluetooth!
It's marketed at people who find Bluetooth too difficult and complicated to use.
It's always weird to me seeing guys I watch in the comments sections of other guys I watch.
The Polaroid Zink printer works by Bluetooth. Why not this? I dunno, stops you losing it. It needs to be surrounded by space for the paper to eject into, so you couldn't print with it in your pocket. I suppose they tried several designs and this was the best.
Maxx Fordham you seem like a massive douche.
This is a hipster gadget
Agreed, you can get used HP portable photo printer for cheaper that can be used with almost any OS, uses common dollar store photo paper, produces better colors, and the ink tanks are not that expensive if you go generic.
This is the kind of device that would appeal to japanese school girls. In japan, they have / had various somewhat gimmicky toy printers / sticker makers Like the Casio Loppy, which is a sort of game console with a built-in sticker printer on the market specifically made for that demographic.
Wow... The quality of the print is really subpar for 150£
Looks like a poorly thought out and expensive piece of junk. At least make it wireless, the AR idea is cool gimic though.
app need an account is bad, but app working like that, is just not acceptable.
Not only are the colors horrible, but they also look blurred. Honestly they look like photos from an amateur camera from the 70s.
A wee bit disappointed it doesn't support Android, but after seeing how it performs I'm not going to worry too much. Loved the Muppets, you sell-out 😉😉😉
Letter 10 Gaming well, then buy the better product: an IOS Device. Its more secure, is safer, more reliable, etc... superior over android in every possible way
official_gymkhanaschoitl You must be fun at parties.
So for the cost of a decent wireless ink jet printer and a nice big pack of photo paper you get an inconvenient lump that makes tiny washed out pictures? Pass.
Despite the puppets very good point at the end. It does seem silly, they created a product limited to owners of phones that don't make up the majority of the market anymore. Don't they want to make money?
"don't think the bus meme will go viral"...
You, good sir, doeth underestimate the interwebs!
Yeah, non-apple is exactly the same as Apple. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go use my Dell computer, with an LG monitor, and listen to songs I bought on Amazon or burned myself and transferred it to my hard drive without any parent company being aware of it or giving me permission. Then I'll send a file from my Dell computer to my Samsung phone and then choose to open that file with whatever program I choose to associate it with. Yep, exactly the same as if all those products were purchased from Apple and were running Apple software with Apple logins and Apple permissions. Exactly the same!
Apple is just the symbol of consumer whoredom. No big fuss.
That was one of the best ending skits you've done.
As usual, a concise, thorough review.
As far as the product goes, I think that the price of the actual printer to be a minor concern, the real issue on these beasts is the cost of the prints. Just short of 50 cents each.
That seems a bit expensive for small poorly colored images.
But then, I'm probably not the demographic it's aimed at either.
More Muppets!!!! Great!! XD
No thanks! Just use a regular printer. Just because something is new doesn't mean it's practical
Do these Zink photos fade over time?
Maybe ten or so years ago, I received a photo printer as a gift. At first, I loved printing out my digital photos. But then I realized that the printed photos fade so severely that they become unrecognizable after a few years. Apparently digital photo printers of this time tended to have this issue. Really a ridiculous scam of a product, if you ask me and ruins the whole purpose of printing a digital photo. But I wanted to know if the technology has improved in this regard.
I'm interested in this as well... I have many prints about ~4 years old that still look great/as good as fresh off the printer. I'm using a Canon Pixma printer and Canon photo paper with 3rd party G&G inks. How many years did yours take to fade? using photo paper?
The video in the photo is honestly the most interesting thing about this.
I don't know why, but the bus meme had me laughing out loud.
Only channel I always watch the whole outro, it's so well made.
Right now, its Techmoan and Game of Thrones for me.
I would assume that the Zink stuff looks an awful lot like Polaroid because the company is more the true successor to the Polaroid mantle, having been the spinoff that is doing the best from the original core company.
I hate apps where we have to create an account. Enough is enough
As soon as he said "iPhone only" I was like "Well this is shit then" as NO ONE in my family uses iPhones, we are all mostly SAMSUNG users so this would be useless to me lol...... anyone else in this situation?
8th .. and have nothing to say cause I haven't seen the video yet!
So refreshing to find someone who is big into tech who does not have a Facebook page (I don't as well). I don't know what your reason is Techmoan...but mine is that I DESPISE Facebook and the whole 'every-time-I-do-anything-on-it-it-monitors-it-and-tells-anyone-remotely-related-to-what-I-looked-at-what-I-looked-at nonsense.
I realize billions love it...fine for them.
I despise it.
Looks flimsy AF.
Average of $2 a picture and no less than $1 after using enough packs of prints. That's way too much for what it does. This is worth $50 tops as a novelty and the pictures are worth about 10 cents. I don't see this being at all popular and only a gimmick if they keep these inflated prices.
"It saves time." Fucking loled
Its 8:30 am in the uk and im watching this no regrets
Shouldn't such a device work wirelessly these days? Oh, but then it might no longer be iphone only! How naïve I was.
Not exactly impressive print quality, sludgy looking colours, also noted there were areas on the prints which seemed out of focus compared to the original. Methinks a lot more work has to go into this product, especially given the asking price.
Forgive me if this is covered (really wish you could search comments)
Why is there a key on the lower right side of each picture? Even the ones you said don't have an associated video seem to have them.
I suspect color issues are more limitations of the technology and material. could be a fun toy, but i am android fanboy, will have to find me a Bluetooth one :D
20's or 30's? I really don't see a 30+ year old using this. And even so maaaybe a 20 year old. It seems more to me like something for teens/preteens(bought for them by their parents of course), to make cute stickers and pass along prints that contain fun "secret" video messages to friends during class and what not. It's just a high-end kid's toy, really.
I can already imagine someone taking a video-photo of them smiling like a seemingly normal picture and then when you scan it the video pans over to a toilet bowl full of shit.
Those prints look really awful.
Great video, glad to know I'm not the only one who uses an old iPhone 6 and a MacBook Air. Oh, and Muppets!
how about reviewing and comparing older headphones from the 50-70s, trying to find hifi ones of the period and how they compare with stuff today?
I like the subtle subscriber amount in the background of the opening with that little rectangular display he reviewed earlier than this video.
Why is there a key icon printed out?
I think I would prefer to use my HP photo printer. It prints more consistently and I can use my phone to print. It's not portable, but it works great.
It's designed to only print instagram photos and improve personalised ads. A.k.a. it mines data from your photos.
The print quality is horrendous
If they upped the print quality and made it wireless, I'd consider it. Battery powered yet physically attached to the phone makes no sense to me.
Absolutely no criticism of your video, I really enjoyed it and it was hugely informative (especially that colour representation - shame the app doesn't let you calibrate off a test print...)
As a software and hardware engineer though, I personally am not forgiving of an app which is basically a glorified camera app not working smoothly on a device of that age! The iPhone 5 is still fully supported by Apple, it seems to be that lazy software companies regularly can't be bothered to optimise for those of us who can't afford a £800 upgrade every two years. Real shame.
i wonder how the colour on the photos look if you shift it red before printing. can you cancel out the blueshift of the zink process, or does it just look even more broken? (not that i'm expecting an answer.)
Why in the fuck would anyone want an itty-bitty picture... when the standard is 4x6?
Those puppets are spot on. iPhone vs Android is totally irrelevant, and people that use Android love to hate iPhones for whatever reason. How about you just use the phone that you like and I'll use the phone that I like and we can all get along. The existence of Apple and the iPhone shouldn't send you into a foamy-mouthed rage. If anything, you should be glad that iPhones exist because competition breeds innovation. One company tries to do it better than the other company and you, the end user, benefits from that.
Anyway, great video as always!
And basically I noticed that it's always the Droid fans that have a go against iPhones and iPhones users (hence Techmoan' s irony at the end of the video) rather than the other way round.
Well quite a few of Sony or Samsung phones are just as expensive as iPhones, even more than some of them. Same for mobile computers.
gmcnewlook it's about function for me. Most android phones have removable batteries, (that's changing now though) and expandable memory. Also iTunes is the worst piece of software I have to be forced to use in years. Apple products are massively overpriced but lovely pieces of tech. It's down to taste.
I have Microsoft Lumia lol :D
I was once asked to copy an audio recording of a lecture (made with a standard recorder app) off an iPhone to a notebook. There literally was a rage when I discovered it can't send a fricking file over Bluetooth and I had to download and install iTunes just to copy 1 file.
512k of ram... I mean subscribers 😄
Hmmm the colors looks like late 70's.
I always ask myself one question when looking at Zink prints: If the prints look like shit, what's the point?
Being able to stick inappropriate pictures of disgusting subjects on everything with the sticky back and all that... I'd buy it. Just like I have a bag of googly eyes to put on everything.
+Manny Calavera You can get little plastic machines that add a sticky back to normal paper
Really? I'd be interested in that, what's that called?
I have to agree, as I've had an HP portable photo printer for years(runs of a battery or power adapter) that uses normal photo paper I can get from Dollar Tree, and the ink is cheap at around $13 US for 2 tanks of generic ink, and the colors are usually spot on unless I get a bad ink tank, only downside because of it's age, and the fact HP has not updated the firmware it won't see an SD card larger then 2GB using the built in card reader, but will if you plug in a USB SD card reader to it's USB port made meant for flash drives lol!
How big's the HP portable? The Zink printer is like an oversized packet of fags. It does absolutely eat power though. I'm sure the one in the video is the same, since it's the same technology, a bunch of heaters that need to get very hot and cold very quickly. So you don't get a lot of prints per charge. For a portable printer though you can't beat it.
Not that you ever really need a portable printer. Everyone has a phone with a screen bigger than the paper, so if you needed to show pictures on the move, just use that. Wait til you get to a real priniter if you need it on paper for some reason.
The quality's not good enough for photography studios. So actually I've no idea who this is aimed at. Everyone has a powerful computer with a good display in their pockets, paper's getting closer and closer to obsolescence.
What if you try to correct colors prior to printing with filters? I wonder if tinting them a bit more red will help.
The muppets were specially funny this time, lol
My mother at which I am on a visit just didnt get why I yelled so happily after... yes seeing the oscilloscope back in place!
LOL for the muppet video at the end.
Forcing me to sign up for an account when there's absolutely no need for it is one way to lose a customer.
But what happens if you try and play back the image on a reel-to-reel machine?
Being partly color blind, those printed colors look OK to me, for casual use
I'd like to complain.Thats it, literally complaining about nothing. :3
I find the performance of the app (or phone w/ the app) quite unacceptable.
Can't see the target market for this device being very big, it's clunky.
I would love to see a video on your Terminatel 257.
Great to see the new Pikmin amiibo making an appearance in the background!
So someone can film a strip tease, give out copies of the first frame and everyone can watch the whole video with the app. Cool!
Is the key printed in the bottom right corner of the photos required on every photo? That's a deal breaker if it is. Is it possibly an icon the app recognizes to know to scan for an associated video file?
Never mind, I eventually found the same comment and answer elsewhere below a pile of chest thumping comments.
I love how you troll the trolls with the muppet skit at the end. Classic!
That's pretty cool. It's like a super gameboy camera.
The bus photo print looks like it was taken in the 70s on a Polaroid.
I've rarely seen a more clunky device in terms of use and design.
The Puppet Section needs to have it's own RUclips channel i think.
GPUtest it does, RUclips pedant
It has it's own playlist - ruclips.net/p/PLN2yCnHTG_6rlyYFpwUX2u0m_HVHpHO0F but if they want a channel they'll have to make the videos on their own.
Ever tried putting a red filter over the photo to counteract the blue hue?
The bus meme reminds me of "This is a Flammenwerfer, it Werfs Flammen".
Your RUclips channel deserves more subscribers. Keep up the great work 👍
It's almost 1 in the morning for me, but techmoan is more important than sleep
Good job on preempting all of the nagging comments!
This is pretty meta, but your mary sue puppets are a bit on the (felt) nose. I demand professional screenplays in my free videos