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The "Retro" part of the name refers to the look of the bordered prints.

#Kodak photo scanner reviews portable#

The Mini 2 Retro and its 3-by-3-inch sibling are the only portable photo printers I know that offer both bordered and borderless images, as shown below. To change cartridges, you open the compartment door, slide out the used cartridge, and slide in the replacement. Replacement cartridges are available in packs of 60 prints (Kodak part number ICRG-230X2). Kodak says the onboard battery recharges fully in about an hour and a half, and that a charge lasts long enough to churn out about 25 prints. Photos exit the device via a slot on the left edge.īluetooth is the only connectivity choice the micro-USB port is just for charging. You start by pairing the printer to your phone or tablet via Bluetooth, then downloading and installing the Kodak Photo Printer app that lets you edit and print photos from your phone's storage or your favorite cloud site.

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Like many of today's photo printer apps, Kodak's is meant strictly for handhelds and doesn't support Windows or macOS laptops or desktops.

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The Mini 2 Retro's software supports Android and iOS mobile devices-in other words, smartphones-though tablets will work too. The dye-sub print process makes four passes to apply colors and a clear coat. According to Kodak, images from the Mini 2 Retro should last for up to a century if handled carefully. By contrast, single-pass Zink printers like the HP Sprocket Select use special paper coated with color crystals that are activated by the printer's selective application of heat. The printing process involves four passes, applying each of the inks in turn.

Cartridges containing both ink and photo paper slide into a hatch at the bottom of the device. The clear coat enhances colors and protects images from finger smudges and dust. It uses cartridges containing four inks-cyan, magenta, yellow, and a clear coat-and sheets of photo paper. Since its prints are much smaller, it's no surprise that the Kodak printer is more compact than its dye-sub rivals, the Canon Selphy CP1300 and the HP Sprocket Studio.

The Mini 2 Retro printer is truly pocket-size. Its operation and feature set match those of the Mini 3, with printed photos emerging from a slot on the left edge and a micro-USB port on the back edge for charging. The Mini 2 Retro measures 1 by 5.1 by 3.2 inches (HWD) and weighs just over half a pound. Like the Mini 3 Retro, the Mini 2 Retro comes in your choice of white, black, or yellow, and in one of two bundles-the $141.99 kit (reviewed here), with enough ink and paper for 68 prints, or a $129.99 starter with enough consumables for only eight photos. The Mini 2 Retro's photos are not only attractive but quick and inexpensive, making it a good fit for saving photos from your smartphone if you don't mind the prints' diminutive size. Like the HP and Canon, the two Kodaks use superior dye-sublimation (often called "dye-sub") printing technology instead of the zero-ink (Zink) process of some competitors. Like the Mini 3, the Mini 2 churns out good-looking images, though its prints are only about half the size of the 4-by-6-inch photos produced by Canon's Selphy CP1300 (another PCMag favorite) and HP's Sprocket Studio. The even smaller sibling of the Kodak Mini 3 Retro, a portable printer that won an Editors' Choice award in these digital pages last month, Kodak's Mini 2 Retro Portable Photo Printer ($141.99) produces miniature business-card-size (2.1-by-3.4-inch) snapshots instead of 3-by-3-inch squares.