The Polaroid PoGo uses Zero Ink (ZINK) technology that is actually embedded into a photo paper, called ZINK Photo Paper. The special paper is durable and contains colorless cyan, yellow, and magenta dye crystals. So instead of using traditional ink cartridges to spray color onto the paper, the PoGo printer applies heat onto the ZINK Photo Paper to activate the colorless crystals—generating full colored photos to share instantly.
Posted by: Staff / 07.28.2008
The new PoGo printer is the first to use ZINK technology--inkless photo printing.
Posted by: Molly K. McLaughlin / 07.28.2008
The Polaroid PoGo is the first product built using the ZINK Digital Printing Technology platform...
Posted by: Staff / 07.23.2008
Here's how it works: You fill the PoGo with 10 sheets of ZINK photo paper, which are embedded with billions of dye crystals. You then pair the PoGo with a phone via Bluetooth and then print from your photo library. The PoGo pulls the paper past a heater that blasts the paper with heat pulses, triggering different color crystals. The paper comes out dry and can be used a sticker, thanks to a peel-off backing.
Posted by: Ryan Kim / 07.07.2008
More pointedly, although modern convenience allows digital camera and mobile phone users to happily snap images whenever they choose, actually printing those pictures still requires the delayed connection to a waiting home PC or a memory card trip to the nearest photo print establishment -- both of which Polaroid is sidestepping via its newly launched PoGo Instant Mobile Printer.
Posted by: Stevie Smith / 07.07.2008
...the Polaroid PoGo Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer, produces cool 2×3″ borderless, sticky-back prints that are smudge-proof, water-resistant and tear-proof photos. That’s so insane, I so need one of these!
Posted by: William Yan / 07.03.2008
Here's the thought I had after my first print rolled out of the Polaroid PoGo: All consumer technologies should be so simple.
Posted by: Eric Benderoff / 06.30.2008
On July 6, Polaroid will begin selling at all Target stores a pocket-size, portable printer that it hopes will be the rebirth of the instant photo business.
Posted by: Richard Barron / 06.26.2008
ZINK is short for zero ink. The technology embeds clear, heat-sensitive dye crystals in its photo paper and uses heat to activate the color. The first ZINK printer, the Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer, should be available by the time you read this...
Posted by: M. David Stone / 06.26.2008
We had mentioned about Polaroid’s partnership with ZINK to bring mobile inkless printing solution. Its official now and the mobile printer, Polaroid-To-Go, Pogo in short is out in the market.
Posted by: Staff / 06.25.2008
