Though they always make it look simple on display models, printing decent quality photos at home is often a hair-pulling affair, requiring frequent print head cleaning and regular replacements of costly ink cartridges. This little gem however, called the Portable Digital Photograph Printer not only avoids trouble by using no ink, but can print 4″ x 6″ photos directly from your camera’s memory card - without hooking it up to a computer.

How does a printer print without ink, you ask? Well, the Portable Digital Photograph Printer, like Polaroid’s automagical PoGo camera, incorporates a thermal element which activates patented, dye-impregnated paper with heat. This method takes less than a minute and produces vibrant, ready-to-touch prints that are smudge, tear, fade and water resistant.

Including a 1.5-inch LCD and simple nav-buttons to preview images before printing, the Portable Digital Photograph Printer will accept SD, Memory Stick, MS-Pro, MMC and XD card formats or optionally, plugs into your computer via USB to produce extra copies of all those old photos you’ve been busily digitizing.

Measuring 6″ long x 4″ wide x 1″ high, the Portable Digital Photograph Printer includes 5 sheets of paper to start you off and is available now over at Hammacher Schlemmer for $149.95. They also stock packs of 40 sheets for $19.95 so you’re ready for the holiday season.

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Hammacher Schlemmer