Hardware Top - Software flop (important information below)

Hardware Top - Software flop (important information below)

Polaroid GL10 Instant Mobile Photo Printer With Bluetooth (Electronics)

Customer Review

First of all: I bought the GL10, because I had a lot of fun already with the PoGo. The zinc-Prints are perfect for scrapbooking and as a small souvenir photos. The not quite perfect quality of the prints I always saw as a feature and not a "bug".

For GL10:

The hardware is like saying top. The Printer looks good and acts processed high. Pairing via Bluetooth (with the code 6000) is not a problem and with the supplied 10 zinc sheets you can get started right away.

How can you now print?
Either you send the files via Bluetooth or USB cable.
Bluetooth works fine on laptop or smartphone (Caution: This course does not work with the iPhone Who is ever noticed that you can not send files or images via Bluetooth with an iPhone, which should not be surprised here I was aware that.. therefore there is no point deduction for the GL10 - after all, it fails here yes to Apple). There is a separate app (which I could not test) for Android smartphones.
To print via Bluetooth you can select the GL10 even if the photo is to be printed or rahmenslos with classic (pure white) Polaroid frame. Choose zweiteren, obtained (with a bit of luck) a beautiful photo with that same framework.
However, without exception, all sent photos are cropped, which then causes a portion (usually the left edge) of the photo can not be seen on the print. As the GL10 selects where the image is cropped, is beyond me. Also in the square, thus matching its format, photographs (eg of Instagram) cut-off edges. This makes this feature largely unusable. Also frameless prints are circumcised, they should not have been sent in the 4x3 format. However, this accounts for less because the cutoff piece fails here mostly small.

You want via USB printing, so you can with the PictBridge-enabled digital cameras (as it did when PoGo) or on the GL10 software that can be downloaded from the Polaroid website for Windows and MacOS. Note: Laptops do not recognize the GL10 as a printer, even if it is connected via USB.

Here we are at the greatest point of criticism: The Polaroid software for the GL10. This is just plain miserable. You have to add the photos you want manually in the Libary of the software. Then you can still laboriously add one of the predefined margins (to choose from kitschy Birthday motives, but also a classic Polaroid (SX70) frame and old Polaroid peel-apart frame. If you took the photo as far as printable, you have a Click on "Print" a 70% chance that the image is printed and the program does not hang.
Now you finally have a finished photograph in his hand. The zinc-paper feels good and high quality, is shiny and resistant to tearing. The prints will always have a slight blue tint, which however can be said to set the software for me.

A few more notes:
- My new GL10 was not loaded. I had him for several hours hanging grid before the LEDs to light up began (so do not give the same - I thought too long, my printer is broken).
- Support by Polaroid there is absolutely no. Neither on the home page still in GL10 program itself (clicking here on "Help" to open a dialogue with "Help is not available for GL10." Toll.).
- No, 4x3 Zinc Paper has no adhesive backing as the PoGo paper.
- Caution is advised when the edges templates in GL10 program: Click on "Add effect to Printer" the currently selected frame is transmitted as a standard framework for the GL10. This means that now - if you have selected the framed print via Bluetooth - all photos are printed with this framework. The problem is therefore, because then you can never return to the pure white standard frame again. You can select While the SX-70 frame in the software, but this has more contours and acts much bluer than the standard white frame at my prints. A reset of the printer does not exist. I would therefore click on this button under any circumstances.

Conclusion: The GL10 could be a great product. But by the software (which acts like a term paper of computer science unmotivated pupils) lost the most fun.
But with a little effort but can be accomplish great prints. The best way to prepare the photos before printing before manually should read: Polaroid edge itself (or add on grottige Software) and - with frameless prints - of course cut the photo into the 4x3 format.

I'll keep the GL10 anyway because my prints generally already fallen. I hope that maybe someday an update of the software is published (or at least the firmware of the printer).

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