Today we’re going to look at the Xiaomi Photo Printer. It’s here! Is it really as cool as I thought and hoped it would be?
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The Xiaomi photo printer is a pretty compact printer with WiFi and Bluetooth. The printer can be installed using Xiaomi’s Mi Home APP from which you can wirelessly print. From the APP you can make small ciolor adjustments and cropping adjustments to the photos you print and chose to print those in the 3:2-format or 1:1. Additionally you can also select to print passport and document photos for which it also includes pretty detailed guidelines.
The printer can print 6” photos (15 x 10 cm) which is a pretty standard photo size. It prints four layers with each layer adding a color and the last layer adding a protective coating which prevents photos from coloration by sunlight, fingerprints and even protects it from water.
You can also chose to print photos from your tablet, notebook or desktop computer as the printer gets installed as a wireless printer when set-up. I personally preferred printing them through the Mi Home APP as I found that to give me the most accurate indication of the crop and how the photos would come out.
When it got announced I was quite excited to see this one, and as it turns out: I am quite happy with it. The photos come out quite nice and its coating seems to work really well.
You can buy photo-packs which contain 2 x 20 photo paper sheets and an ink-cartridge that can print up to 40 photos. These refills are available for a really good price (which comes down to about 8 USD for a refill-pack in China…) which is a pretty good deal considering most printers nowadays are actually cheaper than their ink cartridges. The main downside, I found, is that there is no cartridge or photo paper included with the printer. You have to be aware of this when you decide to buy one and you’ll have to order these along with the printer to avoid disappointments after unpacking it.
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