Photo prints right from your pocket...

ZINK ZINK ZINK... just print.. without ink!

Let your wish come true. You know that you can print photos directly from your new & advanced Polaroid camera? Perhaps even more intriguing is the technology the printer uses: it's inkless and irkless!

Polaroid´s Mobile Photo Printer uses ZINK ("zero-ink") technology. And it prints the photos in 2x3 inch color photos.

Designed by "Zero-Ink" Imaging (yeah... that is ZINK), this printer concept doesn´t require ink cartridges or even dye rolls. Instead, it incorporates dye crystals inside the specially patented ZINK paper, secured underneath a glossy protective layer. When heat from the printer is applied to the cyan, yellow, and magenta crystals in the paper, the appropriate crystals are "melted" to release color. Isn't that amazing?


While ZINK Imaging has developed the technology (with more than 100 patents and counting), the company is partnering with others to build and release the actual products. The first products that will feature ZINK technology will be Polaroid´s Mobile Photo Printer and Integrated Digital Camera and Printer. Cell phones and cameras can be directly connected to the Mobile Photo Printer via Bluetooth or USB, providing 2 x 3 inch prints.

The printer just measures just 4.7- by 2.8- by 0.9-inches. The Mobile Photo Printer should be released sometime this spring, and the latest reports says that it will sell for $150.

ZINK's goals for its printers are to provide high quality photos at an affordable price, while incorporating the convenience due to its new technology. In the future, the company hopes to offer something for everyone.

ZINK has recently announced partnerships with three other companies: Alps Electric Co, Ltd., Foxconn Technology Group, and TOMY Company, Ltd. Most likely, future incarnations using ZINK technology will offer larger paper sizes (4x6 inches and beyond).

ZINK also has the capabilities of creating ZINK printers embedded into not just cameras, but also cell phones and notebook computers, without adding much weight or bulk. You're gonna go absolutely insane...