Customer Ratings & Reviews

We purchased this portable photo printer for my daughter for Christmas. She recently had a baby and wanted her to capture the precious memories of our new grandson. The picture quality, portability and ease of use were beyond my expectations. For the price of the printer paper is very affordable. I highly recommend this product for new parents and grandparents.

I use it for scrapbooking and I love it so far! Definitely a great purchase. If you really want it, get it.

I love it! It’s easy to use! Pictures are good quality! I use it all the time.

i LOVE this thing fr. i use it a lot to journal and if ur thinking about this, GET IT. although the quality of the pictures aren’t crystal clear, it’s still great tbh.

Pretty good for Journaling. Great size. Fast print.

Very compact and portable. Prints beautiful pictures

I received this for my birthday - I’ve been journaling a lot !!! I wanted this sprocket soon could print out my pictures and add to my journal ! Guys : this is a game changer ! The saying a picture is worth a thousand words totally applies to this scenario! I just lost my precious dad so pictures really mean a lot !!!! The quality of my sprocket is totally awesome / I’m so so so grateful for the gift ! Plus got it on sale -it was $87! Don’t wait ! Thanks Best Buy for drive up service too- it feels like a birthday hug !

Cute printer about the size of your hand. Picture quality goes down by the print of each picture but if you let it rest it starts working like new

I brought this for my daughter for a xmas present. She loves it and I adore it.

I do love the product easy friendly and simple to share with your friends

This is exactly what I was looking for. You have so many different printing options using the accompanying app. I print pictures to add to my planner and journal. It is very simple to use.

I picked this up today from BestBuy. I honestly was not expecting a true picture quality resoultion or color; I just want a decent sticker quality for my diary. However I was shocked that the quality was so bad — like the color picture in an old newspaper front page with multiple horizontal and verical streaks. Another huge problem was that the true white and yellow printed extreme PINK. Picture seems all blown up. (i tried printing all kinds of pictures with different colors and resolutions). I tried printing black&white picture, but picture came out with partial red. I looked at different youtube reviews on this device and the pictures that got printed by other owners actually seem pretty good. So maybe, I thought my zinc photo paper was bad, so I opened a brand new zinc photo pack and I still have the same issue. Yes, I did the blue paper face down first just like HP told me to do in their homepage community threads with people complaining of red (pink) hue problems. I did all the resets too but no luck. Yes my battery green and was charged nearly full. So I must have gotten a lemon, which means HP needs some serious quality control. I am going back to the store to buy another same model since I am convinced i got a lemon. Everyone seems to say good things on their reviews. HP’s proper quality control could have prevented my inconvenience and unnecessary car gasoline and mileage.

I’ve been wanting to print some of our travel pictures so I could pin it on a map, frame it and hang it on a wall... And this palm size printer made it so easy and quick for me! It’s pretty easy to set up. When I opened the box did not see any instructions, but once you download and open the app, it will guide you through it. The app is super user friendly and really straight forward to use. And you connect the printer with your phone via Bluetooth. With the app you can edit and customize your pictures with frames, stickers, or other decorations, then hit "print" and in seconds out comes your photo! The ink is in the paper so there is no need for ink cartridges. The cool feature is that you can print pictures from your Instagram, Facebook and Google! All you have to do is login into your account and select the picture you want to print! Simple and easy! I like to do some editing on my pictures and with this app you CAN print photos that have been previously edited using your phone or other picture editing apps! And the colors look true to me. You can take pictures using the app too, even selfies and it will print it right away. But since I like to do some editing this feature didn’t really interested me. So overall, if you are looking for a small printer, and you just want some fun little 2x3s pictures for your projects, look no more. This IS the one to get!

The HP Sprocket 2nd Edition uses no ink and instead heats ZINK paper to reveal the photo in a single pass. It’s fun. The pictures are cute and you can stick them to anything. I feel like this printer is a Polaroid for the digital age. Everyone has a phone and this printer produces instant prints for far less money than a Polaroid or an inkjet. Multiple devices can hook up to the printer at the same time. At one point I had a Samsung Galaxy Tab S4, an iPhone, and an iPad hooked up. The apps work virtually the same regardless of device and connection was simple. But, I was expecting a bit more from a 2nd Edition. The prints look good, but they aren’t great. It won’t replace a good inkjet for overall printer quality. I noticed banding in skies or solid colors and sometimes flesh tones would get overblown or washed out. The big new feature with the second edition is the AR. You can now print from a video clip or put an animated frame and when you scan the picture with the app, the picture will come to life and even play a video clip. The AR feature worked well on my iPhones and even displayed location information and google street information for the pictures. You can decide if you want information embedded in the print or not. The AR prints were, again, fun. But, some AR features were limited by which device I used to view the photo. For instance, I could create a picture with an embedded video on my phone and view the video with my phone, but if I tried to view that same video on another phone, it wouldn’t work. It would still show location data and any photos related to that location, but I couldn’t watch the picture come to life with the embedded video clip. This makes sense as it is pulling the file from my original device and not a cloud service. But, I wish it was a universal feature... Now, the animated borders and stickers will work on any phone with the app. However, I couldn’t get the AR features to work on my tablets. My Samsung Galaxy crashed whenever I tried to view any AR details and the iPad didn’t fare much better. It just never could reveal anything. Now, I could view the embedded location information printed from my tablets on my iPhone, but the opposite didn’t work. I know all devices had the AR features turned on. Battery life is okay, but if you are using this at a party or group function, I would have it plugged in. After 5 - 6 photos, my battery would be down to the final bar. On that note, the charging cable is too short. I think it is only a foot and a half. It appears that HP is adding more features and functions to the app and the printer at all times. So, I am hopeful that there will be more AR borders and stickers in the future as the current selection is rather slim. Also, I would like it if we could get a PC driver at some point. I don’t see why laptops or surface devices can’t join the party. So, would I recommend the Sprocket? Sure. I am having a lot of fun with it. I don’t know if the new features are enough to warrant an upgrade for original Sprocket owners, but at $5 - $10 for a pack of 20 prints, I think this is a great pick-up. I look forward to getting a travel case and a small photo booklet.

I've been playing with this little printer for a few days, and am pretty impressed with it. It uses no ink, but instead uses thermal paper, which allows for it's super small size. The battery powered and Bluetooth capabilities make it a breeze to take with you! The battery lasts for a reasonable amount of time, but could be better. Just printing about 8 pictures over the course of a few days, it went from fully charged to around 20%. Some of that is most likely idle time, as I did not manually shut it off in-between uses. I have it set to turn itself off after an hour and sleep after Sleep after 5 minutes. Still, not too shabby for it's small size. The HP Sprocket software that you download and use to connect to the printer is really quite well done, and very easy to use. Even if you don't have a Sprocket printer, it would make a nice image editing tool for your phone. It connectes to Instagram, Facebook, Google, and your local images on your phone or tablet. Really makes it easy to make prints of your online photos. The size of the prints limits their use, obviously. Not something you'll be printing any detail with, but for fun-sized photos for sharing with friends, it's great. The paper has peel off backs that allow you to make stickers out of the little photos. This would make a great gift for a kid or scrapbook keeper. The HP Sprocket app lets you crop, adjust color settings, add borders, text, little fun graphics you can add on top of the photo, and overlays. You can use these features to edit your photos, then print out on a larger printer or share to one of your social media sites. My colleague was able to download the Sprocket software and connect to my printer. It's supposed to support up to 3 additional connections, although I only tried myself and one other. You can change the color of the little LED on the front to whatever color you like, which is a nice little personalization feature. The printer takes about 45 seconds from the time you press print to print an image, so the speed isn't great if you are wanting to print several photos to distribute. The software has a Photo booth mode which takes 4 timed pictures and combines them into one image. This is fun for taking pictures with friends. The printer itself is really light, but feels well made. Changing the paper is easy. Just pop off the top and insert into the tray. It comes with a pack of 10 papers, including a calibration sheet. They recommend not putting any more paper than this to avoid jams.

I bought the HP Sprocket for my teenage daughter, and she absolutely loves it! It’s incredibly easy to use and simple to understand, making it perfect for her. The quality of the prints is fantastic, and it’s a great product for the price. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a fun and convenient way to print photos on the go!

I love it super easy to use! It’s small enough for travel use.

Very nice and convenient way to produce quality hard copies of your digital photos. The quality of the device and photos is excellent, it’s very easy to use, and the price is very reasonable.

Bought this for my daughter for Christmas. She loves being able to print pics right off her phone. Good quality, easy to use, wish film was a tad less expensive.

I got this form my daughter as a christmas present. She loves it and loves printing out photos for her friends. Plus they are stickers.