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Let’s get the bad stuff out of the way, actual printing. When I print in landscape mode, the prints come out good as before. Portrait mode on the other hand is extremely pixelated. Yes the update corrected the screen pixelation but the print still comes out pixelated as if someone sent the printer a low resolution of the final result. This was verified by printing a few old pictures in portrait mode to compare with the same photo previously printed before the major update.

Another minor issue that is missing from the previous iteration is actually able to move the photo while in print preview. What if I want to actually fill the whole paper and not have white borders or what if I wanted to purposely offset the photo for other artistic details? This is not as important as the pixelation but eventually I would like to have this feature back.

Aside from those issues, the app looks much cleaner than before.

I had stopped using this printer last summer a couple months after buying it because they totally changed the entire app and I just hated the way the prints where coming out. Well I picked it back up a couple days ago. There was an app update. I was like here we go again an entire new app. To my surprise I like it. I love the edit settings. My pictures are a tad bit brighter with a little manipulation. I wish there was an explanation of each of the settings in the app and unfortunately I can’t use the collage setting because every time I go into it and start choosing photos the app shuts off, oh well. I just make my collages with a different app then print the entire photo with the printer, I know a shame I have to do all that but I’m not big on a lot of unnecessary complaining. Overall the app is nice, it could really be great with a little attention and fine tuning well here’s to wishing. Thanks for the changes I look forward to even greater future changes. I’m gonna hang in there, keep up the good work guys.

Update: I called Polaroid customer service and they were helpful. I updated my iOS, then deleted this app, and reinstalled it. The firmware update worked fine and my printer is working again. I will change my rating.

I need to be able to use this again. When I try, I’m told I need to update the firmware which will take 20 minutes. I don’t need the feature it’s promoting, but I can’t get past it- so fine. I hit update. It sat at 100% without finishing for over an hour. Finally I closed it out and reopened it. I was back to the beginning- need to update firmware. So I did it again. It sat at 100% for over an hour again, never finished. Finally I just deleted the app and reinstalled it. Today I tried again to print and guess what? Need to update firmware. I either need to be able to use my printer, or I need a refund for it. I loved it up to this point, now it’s useless.

Updating my review!! I am SO excited! I wrote before that I had used it for 6 months and absolutely loved it but all the sudden it would not update after trying 5+ times. Not sure what happened but today I summoned the courage to try again and it worked immediately!! No clue why, but I am not complaining! So that said, it’s the most reasonably priced portable printer and I think most of the negative reviews on here are forgetting that. The app is basic, but it works perfectly fine and gets the job done. I think the colors are great, the pictures are clear and print fast, and I love that they are peel and stick. It’s obviously not going to give you magazine quality photos, but that’s not what it was designed for. I find it perfect for daily journaling and it’s so much more convenient than rushing out to Walgreens every time you need a picture. 10/10 would recommend!

While I wait for update to this app. I’ll let u know that u can print from ur PC. I print from my MacBook. Pair the printer. Then u can send photos to device. Edit your photo so it’s not exactly 3:2. A bit wider. It crops it automatically, I think from both sides. Make sure it doesnt crop your head off. I’ll edit this review with better instructions. App is barely ok. Idk. I want to love it, but the app is annoying to use and pictures come out dark/ warm.

Thanks for the response! Message to devs.
Although I don’t think it’s a deal breaker personally because it is just a fun portable printer for personal use. But, photos come out with a yellow tint. Even black and white photos have this tint. Is the tint a software thing or a hardware issue? I hear other similar printer have similar issue but colors come out a little more true.

I spent good money on this printer and I shouldn’t have to update the firmware to print out my own pictures on my own printer. I happily went to update the firmware, however it took well over 20 minutes and was still at 0%. I gave it time and it was still not downloading the firmware. I just want to print out my dang pictures yet the app is requiring to download firm ware that won’t even load!!!! This is ridiculous. I deleted the app and downloaded it again to see if it was just temporary but it is still not downloading the firmware at all when I click update. I’m not about to let my phone sit undisturbed for hours for an app. Please fix this so I can print my pictures ☺️☺️

It’s kind of ridiculous that the app has such poor ratings and no one has tried to implement updates. I just purchased this mobile printer and if I had known the app’s functionality was this poor, I’m not sure that I would’ve purchased the mobile printer at all.
If you choose a photo on the app and then “x” out of it to look at another photo, it jumps to some random “bursts” page and won’t let you return to your camera album unless you close and reopen the entire app.
It also won’t connect to my mobile printer! I have to restart my phone *every* single time I want to print a photo because the app is incapable of printing one photo after the next.
I really wanted to like the product including the app. The ideas behind the fun stickers and text were solid, but the execution is terrible. Please make improvements so this app can let me do what it’s supposed to do: print photos.

First of all if you youse this app for making collages it resaves awkward crops of all the pictures automatically. Plus it saves them with the same name as the original. It makes it impossible to keep tack of your photos. Also they took away many of the collage options. Now you can only have a max of 4 pics. You can’t easily just start with a collage option either. You have to pick a picture then do the collage then it kicks you all the way out to pick pictures from the main menu again. So if you originally picked a picture from your camera roll to narrow down your selection once you click collage you are back in all photos and have to go back to your camera roll and start over. Plus you can’t easily rotate pictures 90 degrees. The app is not user friendly. The old app wasn’t great but it was better than this.

Generally this app does what it says it does. At first I was frustrated because I could not get any of my edits to stick. Whenever I switched to a new editing tool the previous edit was gone. It took several days to realize that since the images from my iPhone never fully filled the printing area (i.e. a small amount of white space appeared above and below the image) I was unable to see the “X” and “check mark” at the bottom because they were white on white. Also if you edit your photos and leave white space on the bottom you can’t see them either. These marks should either be a different color or be placed outside the image area. I only gave it 3 stars because of my frustration and the time it took me to figure this out.

I hadn’t used this printer for a year or so but it was working just fine. Then I made the mistake of updating the firmware and immediately afterwards ALL of the paper I have (over 10 packs!) is mysteriously a “paper mismatch!” I’ve tried four different packs that are identical to the paper that was working immediately before this firmware update and nope, nothing. They’re sure quick to offer to link me to a website where I can buy new ZINK paper at over $1 a print though! Tossing over $100 in the trash apparently. This is an absolute scam and a blatant cash grab. Garbage device and company that is not trustworthy at all. From all the numerous recent reviews it’s obvious many others are experiencing similar disappointments. Congrats, you’ve ruined the name of a once well established and respected photography company.