Polaroid’s Zero Ink Mini-Printer

Polaroid has announced their Zero Ink mini-printer device, meant for printing digital camera issues quickly on the fly via USB or Bluetooth. The printer uses no ink whatsoever, and prints out borderless 2×3 images with a sticky backing, so you can gleefully put them up on walls and anywhere else.

The Zero Ink technology, dubbed ZINK, uses heat to produce an image on special paper, which Polaroid describes as “an advanced composite material with embedded yellow, magenta and cyan dye crystals, activated with 200 million heat pulses, in 30 seconds, in a single pass…With 100 billion crystals in a 2×3in print, the paper is 100% inkless.”

The printer has a scheduled release date of June in the UK, but no mention of a US release date yet.