- Polaroid’s latest portable printer produces 3×3 prints via app
- The device’s unique built-in frame accommodates your prints
- It costs $119.99 / £99.99 and joins the 2×3 and 4×6 versions of the Hi-Print range
Like Instax, Polaroid makes some of the best instant cameras, but today unveiled a different type of product for fans of instant photography: the Hi-Print 3×3 portable printer.
It’s a unique rival to the Instax Mini Link series of portable printers – which are a smart alternative to dedicated instant cameras – printing on Polaroid’s Hi-Print 3×3 paper and, with a trick up its sleeve, it doubles as a photo frame.
Printers can be pretty ugly, but the Hi-Print 3×3 is a thoroughly stylish alternative that you’ll want to flaunt, with a sleek all-white design that’s essentially customizable by housing one of your smartphone’s prints, selected and edited from your phone’s gallery/roll via Polaroid’s free app (for iOS and Android).
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The Polaroid Hi-Print 3×3 Portable Printer costs $119.99 / £99.99 (Australian pricing and availability TBC) and comes with a 10-sheet cartridge for printing to get you started – competitively priced against Instax Mini Link alternatives.
Another type of photo frame
I’ve been reviewing the best instant cameras and the best digital photo frames for years, and the new Polaroid Hi-Print 3×3 is something of a unique hybrid of the two.
Unlike a dedicated analog instant camera, you have the freedom to choose which images you want to print from your smartphone via the Polaroid app, with the ability to add templates and stickers if you wish.
And it’s not just a portable printer, but also a frame: these printouts can snap onto the device in its flip-up frame.
Polaroid already has the 4×6 Hi-Print Photo Printer in its lineup, plus an additional new 2×3 Hi-Print Printer that will easily slip into a pouch, but it’s the new 3×3 version with its built-in frame that really stands out for me.
Having never used a Polaroid Hi-Print camera, I can’t speak to the quality of prints produced by the different paper types compared to traditional Polaroid cameras such as the I-2, Flip or Go 2, but I am certainly interested in the 3×3 portable printer and hope to get to use it soon.
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