Polaroid Hi-Print Unboxing and Review vs HP Sprocket 

The reason why polaroid film and min printer cartridges are expensive aren't the same and has less to do with quality and more to do with costs associated with each format. Polaroid film is actual, old school, exposure based film development. It relies on physical exposure of the image onto the "film"/paper. The chemicals for developing these are packed into the film itself and are released after exposure through rollers compressing and breaking their packaging. So its physically developing the film as you would in a dark room but all in the camera's body. Its a relatively complicated and technical product to manufacture and has fairly tight tolerances to ensure that everything works as intended. Which is why its so expensive. Polaroid's "Hi Print" use transparent ink film to heat transfer the dye onto the paper. Its a completely different process and they are expensive for different reasons. Each cartridge has 4 different colour ink films that are used to transfer each of the 4 colours onto the paper in turn. Because they bundle the paper with the ink, there is a lot of unused ink that goes to waste. The amount of ink film of each colour is way more than you would need - as the ink is contained physically on transparent film, there is no way to measure how much is left as in a conventional inkjet printer. Overloading is used as a means of making sure that you get sufficient ink for each colour per print. End users ultimately pay for the excess/waste - which is why dye sub mini printer cartridges are more expensive and also wasteful. Unless portability is a must, you are much better off just getting a decent resolution photoprinter that uses conventional ink, or even something like the Canon Selphy which (whilst using the same technology as the Hi-Print) doesn't forcibly combine the ink cartridges with the photo paper. At the end of the day, the colour accuracy and quality might be better than a Zink printer but with only 4 colour "cartridges", it is still pretty terrible.

I don't agree. Polaroid uses a totally different printing system to the Sprocket. It involves paper and heat-sensitive film whereas HP uses Zink paper, a single sheet of coated paper. Costs for the Polaroid printer will be higher because of that. To my mind the Polaroid system (dye sublimation) produces far superior results.

Honestly from what I've seen in this video the Polaroid high print is a way better purchase and right now it's on sale for $80 on the Best buy website

Yeah I think so.

A regular printer x stock paper, cheaper than this. Or order from vistaprint, even cheaper.

Yes it is. I’ve printed at least 10 in one sitting without any issues.

The quality of your photo may not be great

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10. The ink and paper are on the same cartridge

Yup.

No, I have some from 4 years ago that look like garbage. They dont look great even new.

где такие цены принтер уже стоит баксов от 70 и бумага еще