HPRT CP2100 Wireless Mini Photo Printer

Wish it came with more printer paper. Prints really easy. Love that it connects to an app with a bunch of filters

The HPRT Portable Photo Printer in Pure Pink offers a convenient solution for printing instant pictures on the go. Its compact size and lightweight design make it perfect for travel or capturing memories wherever you are.

One of the standout features of this printer is its Bluetooth connectivity, which allows for seamless printing from your smartphone or tablet. The setup process is straightforward, and I found the printer to be compatible with a wide range of devices, making it versatile and user-friendly.

The print quality is impressive for a portable printer, with vibrant colors and sharp details that bring photos to life. I appreciated the ability to customize prints with filters, frames, and stickers using the accompanying app, adding a personal touch to each photo.

The Pure Pink color adds a fun and stylish element to the printer, making it a fashionable accessory as well as a functional one. The rechargeable battery ensures that you can print photos anytime, anywhere, without needing to worry about finding an outlet.

However, I did encounter some issues with connectivity and printing reliability, particularly when using the printer for extended periods or with larger batches of photos. Additionally, the cost of consumables such as photo paper and ink cartridges can add up over time.

Overall, the HPRT Portable Photo Printer in Pure Pink offers a convenient and stylish way to print instant pictures on the go.

It’s so handy. It’s compact, it’s easy to slide the ribbon and prints in because they’re all in one. The print quality itself is okay for what it is and would be great for people into journaling/scrapbooking/whatever. It takes a few passes of spitting out the paper and sucking it back in to lay out the colors which is interesting to watch, so between sending the image and printing it takes a couple of minutes per picture. There’s also a border on each one that I’ve printed that is about half an inch on the bottom, so the print will be more like 2×2.5

But the refills? My gosh these are not handy by any means. The refills are not budget-friendly for a 2-pack. I had some luck finding alternatives using the search term ‘mini photo printer cartridge’ but I think being in this form rather than just the paper alone shoots up the cost.

Installing the companion app and connecting via bluetooth enabled the production of a small but decent printout of selected photos in a timely fashion, comparable to the instant cameras of the past. Its no substitute for one of the printing machines you find in stores, but ok for things like scrapbooks etc.

Came with a single spool of 10 pages, and note that this can only be charged by USB connection, it wasn’t recognised as a printer device, so you can only use their app to print from phone or tablet, not PC or laptop. The unfortunate thing is that my prints were not scaled to fit the printing media, leaving a thick white edge on the side from where it was ejected. The app gave the impression that it would crop it to fit, but that wasn’t the case.

Given the initial cost of the printer and ongoing paper expense, I can’t see the value in this to most people. It feels like an expensive novelty, and photo printing shops are not likely to be diminished by the availability of products like this.

Update: After using this again, it managed to fail twice, resulting in two wasted prints. I have still yet to see any replacement cartridges on offer, so see this as an expensive waste if it can’t reliably print.

This was designed to be very easy to use. Download the NON intrusive app, WOW, can’t believe how good the app is regarding permissions. Good job, this is how its done! It does ask for a one time location use to ID the printer and that’s it. It also ask for BT to connect and transfer pictures, this is normal. And it asks for permission to your pictures, so it can print. That’s it…. No really, that’s it. Again good job. The picture takes about 1 minute to print and it explains what it’s doing as it’s doing it. The picture can be touched right away and looks great, the color accuracy is pretty good. The gotcha with this printer is the photo paper cartridge. Its fairly expensive, and if you plan on printing many pictures you might want to go easy. If you look up on Amazon for the CP2100 cartridge, you will understand. This is a cool color printer, it’s very mobile and fun and easy to use.

I am looking forward to taking this little photo printer with me on an upcoming family vacation, despite a few drawbacks I’ll mention later. It is a little heftier than I expected but still fairly small and quite portable – perfect for traveling, but I probably would not haul it around with me on a daily basis when I’m home.

Pros:
1. Decent photos. I know there are those who would say the quality is only so-so, but for me, it reproduces the picture from my phone quite respectably on paper, which is all I need. The colors may not be super-brilliant, but they’re not wrong. I can look at the printed picture and see exactly what I can see on my phone, so I’m happy.
2. Small size. Prints are 2X3 inches, which is a nice pocket size for travel. You can share prints with others in the moment, or paste them into a travel journal, as I tend to do. You still have your digital photos, so you can always come home and make larger prints later if you want.
3. Easy. Download the app, tap Connect to connect your phone to the printer, then click Picture to select and print a picture. You can print multiple copies, apply filters and effects, use frames/templates to enhance your photos, and more. But the path to just print a photo is quite simple and therefore something I will likely actually do, rather than put off.

Cons:
1. Refills are expensive. You can only use the proprietary cartridge refills, 10 prints each, and the only place you can buy them from, as far as I can tell, is the manufacturer (they have a store on Amazon). One cartridge is $15 at this writing, so in addition to buying the printer, once you’ve used up the cartridge(s) that came with it, your 2X3 inch prints are going to cost you at least $1.50 each.
2. There is no way to use all of the paper. The machine prints at 2X3, period. Even though the app allows you to set up a different size (in mm only), that does not change the size of the picture you get in your print. The paper is actually over 3.5 inches long, so there is always a bit of wasted paper on the end that you can never use, and that you will need to cut off if you want a “full-bleed” print.
3. Phone pics only. The app only sees pictures in your phone’s camera roll and there is no way to look anywhere else for other pics. I was unable to print anything in cloud storage that was not also in my phone’s Camera Roll gallery. I did copy a photo from another camera over to my phone’s Camera Roll and the printer found and printed it just fine. For a while I couldn’t even see all the Cameral Roll pics (just those from the last month or so), but later on I could, so I’m not sure whether the app needs time to load them all or what.

Overall, I still like this printer and I have ordered extra cartridges to take on an upcoming trip. However, I think the inability to find and print pictures from anywhere on the phone (including cloud storage the phone has access to) to be a little limiting, and the cartridges are a bit pricey. I’ll use it for travel but probably not at home.