Polaroid’s Printer Turns Digital Photos Into Pocket-Size Souvenirs
The $100 Hi-Print has a small footprint but makes a big impact.
Photographer: Janelle Jones for Bloomberg Businessweek
The average phone has 952 photos stored on it, according to a 2019 study by cybersecurity company Avast Software. The trick to rescuing images from their digital dungeon? Print them, of course. Polaroid’s portable Hi-Print ($100) spits out richly colored, credit-card-size pictures. It weighs just 10 ounces and measures 3 inches by 6 inches—roughly the same footprint as an iPhone 13 Pro Max—and it’s just a bit more than an inch thick. It comes with two cartridges that hold 10 prints each and can print them all on a full charge. The peel-off backs allow photos to be affixed to walls, bulletin boards, or even the back of your phone.
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