Customer Ratings & Reviews

Despite everyone carrying a high quality camera in their pocket at all times, rarely does anyone (especially me) have photos printed. It's kind of a hassle. Sometimes I just want some photos of my kids to put in scrapbooks, use for school projects, etc. Having a high quality printer at home to print your own photos, however, is costly. In comes the HP Sprocket. IN THE BOX You get the printer, which is remarkably thin, a micro-USB charging cord (I really wish all companies would move to USB-C) and ten prints of photo paper. SETUP I charged mine before use, the light on the side glows green when it's done. Then to insert the photo paper, you pop off the top and put the paper in. Now, you have to be careful, ensuring you put the paper in the right way, but the paper itself has a bright orange insert that tells you which way to put it in. As long as you are halfway paying attention, it won't be a problem. After that, you download the app (there's one for everything) and once the printer is charged and turned on, my phone had no problem finding the printer. EASE OF USE Everything runs through the app. You can take a picture within the app (I didn't) or you can "import them" from your photo gallery (for me, that would be Google Photos). It's a breeze to do so, although the icons in the app itself could have been a little better designed. You can even view photos on your social media account and print them straight from there, which would save you a few steps of having to download a photo to print if it wasn't already on your phone. The fun part is that you can edit any picture. You can pinch and zoom, crop or rotate a photo with your fingers using the touchscreen. You can change the colors of your photos, give it different filters, add fun stickers and even add text and frames. The amount of customization is pretty amazing. There's something there for everyone to add special touches to their photos. PRINTING and PRINTING QUALITY The only complaint, and it's own I knew the moment I got the printer, is the size of the prints. They're tiny. It's nice when you want to use the photo as a sticker (I should add that the prints have a removable adhesive backing) but they don't work for a 4X6 frame. BUT, what you can do is print tiles. So the printer will take your photo and print 4 or 9 tiles that you can piece together to form one big picture. We took a piece of normal printer paper, removed the adhesive backings from 4 small photos to create one big one that's about the size of a 4X6. Unless viewed up close, you can't tell it's 4 individuals photos making up the big one. So while the small print size could be a turn off, I'd argue that it makes the printer more versatile given the option to print tiles. The print quality is top notch in my opinion. I really don’t know what to compare it to, but suffice it to say, I had no problems with the print quality. In fact, I was impressed OTHER COMMENTS Because the prints are so small, the printer itself is crazy small. It's barely thicker than a phone and about the size of a 4X6. It's extremely portable and is great to take with you to say, a kid's party where you might want immediate prints of photos.While I haven't tested the battery life to say how long it lasts, I printed about 20 photos in one outing without a problem. Because of the size of the printer, it only holds 10 pieces of photo paper at a time. Again, this is the trade off for having a small printer. Costs of prints are pretty reasonable. I bought a 50 pack for $24. So while it's by no means cheap (about 50 cents a print) I think it's a good deal to have the ability to print high quality photos at home on the spot. CONCLUSION All in all, if you have any desire to make prints at home, whether for scrap books, or to create some kind of project involving pictures, or maybe you just want to print out some mementos when hanging out with friends, this Sprocket printer is the way to go. it's well priced, it's compact, and it's very versatile. And the customization options are a lot fun.

I purchased this as a gift for my daughter and she loves it. Her and her friend's use it all the time and especially like that the film is easy to install.

Got this for my older sister’s birthday who had recently gave birth to a son, so this was perfect to to capture those memories!

I bought this for my niece and ended up buying another for myself. It’s soo cool that you could print right from your phone and easy to use!

Very nice to be able to print out pics when we want. Of course the quality is not to great but it does the job. Others are really happy when given stickers.

Pictures are perfect size for back of phone ,color is great.. great compact size...convenient great for teenagers

I love this!!! This is a small printer. It is perfect for printing out a quick picture, but the pictures are about 2x3.

Got this for our daughter to name easy pics of her and friends for her Grad party she loves it.

Trash product. Stop selling this as it doesn't work. I bought 2 of them, 1 from Amazon and then when from best buy, same result. It didn't work at all. Dont sell a defective product. The Canon photo printer works great!

I love everything about this device except that the quality of black and white images are pretty poor.

I love having this around the house. Sometime I take it with me!

Great device for an amazing price. Would highly recommend.

Its great having this product for all the firsts in my childs life

Great quality, highly recommend this, very nice and handy

Purchased as a gift for my granddaughter. She I’ve it

Nice for any type of parties, get together or just because.

Does what it is supposed to do. We like it. Hope you do to

Simple set up and easy to use. My 12 year old loves it.

I gave this 4 stars because some of the pictures I printed came out looking like mud was on the faces. I tried reinserting the orange card to scan and see if that would fix the problem, but it did not. I wasted about 5-6 picture papers trying to fix this problem. It did not happen to all the pictures but a few of them came out like that. I even tried taking a picture in the app and printing it and 1 of the pictures still came out looking like mud was on my daughters face. So weird. Other than that, I love the fact that the pictures are slightly bigger than the other version. It was very easy to set-up and connect to my phone. The pictures in the app come out really good on the phone, but like I said 1 of them came out looking like mud on the face along with some of the other pictures that were not taken in the app. I don’t know why that is. The charging wire comes with a neat little tie so you can keep it wrapped and put it away until you need to charge it (the little things that make a difference). Lastly, the top is easy to take off so you can put in the paper. Its a very easy compact printer that comes in handy. I love the size of the pictures and the convenience of it so I can print pictures quickly for my scrapbook and my happy planner! I wanted to give it 5 stars, but because of that issue with the mud on the face, I docked it only 1 star.

Really Awesome printer. I would definitely buy it again.