Kodak PoGo Digital Printer
Our eldest at two and a half is a bit of a photograph fiend. We gave him our old two megapixel Fuiji camera for his second birthday and he’s been happy snapping away ever since.
So when we spotted the Pogo on Play.com for just over £20, this seemed like a great solution to printing out the little man’s pictures that wasn’t going to cost us a fortune.
The printer isn’t a normal printer, it prints quarter size (3×2 inch) pictures onto stickers- ideal for a toddler into sticking- and doesn’t use expensive ink cartridges either, the magic is in the paper.
General reviews of this printer are pretty good and if you use it the way Kodak envisaged, it is pretty good (albeit the pictures are never going to be awesome at the size they are). The problem comes when you want to use it in a way Kodak doesn’t want you to.
Let me elaborate…
The Kodak PoGo is designed as a portable printer that you can bluetooth wirelessly pictures from your mobile phone to while you’re out and about. It also lets you plug a pictbridge printer straight into it and print from there. The bluetooth works wonderfully, I can vouch for that. The pictbridge I’m unable to test because none of the four cameras we own, including a digital SLR, have that facility built in.
And if you’re considering printing from your PC, my advice would be to forget it- it’s blinking difficult and requires bluetooth on your computer. I managed to set it up after a good half an hour of wading through forums and FAQ’s but it’s not a process I’d like to repeat in a hurry I can tell you.
So I’m left in a bit of a dilemma, the PoGo doesn’t really fufil the purpose we bought it for, the lad’s camera is too old to support pictbridge, and printing from a PC is a bit of a nightmare, but with the right kit, it is a really handy bit of gear, especially if you’re little and into sticking things.
My advice would be, check your camera for the pictbridge logo, and if its got support, go for it. The paper isn’t expensive and the amount of fun you can have with it means its great value for money.
