JADENS Portable Printer Wireless - Supports 8.26x11.69 US Letter, Inkless Mobile Printer Compatible with iOS, Android & Laptop

super hard to make the connection after finally connected, it doesnt work, doesnt print out anything.

This printer is such a cool idea, but unfortunately it fails to impress. Because the paper is rolled up inside the printer, it doesnt come out flat. The ink and printer is low quality so there are streaks in the print. Additionally, the paper is not like regular printer paper. You would not be able to print important documents off of it. There are no options to customize the sizing of the print. You can choose the size of paper it will print, but thats about it. Im not really sure what you could use this printer for. Its easy-to-use, but just not worth it.

Love the compact & lightweight size. I used with my iPhone & the app with no problem at all. **Now the drawbacks: - the video says you must use thermal paper & that it wont print on regular paper. -This printer works with the iPhone app pretty simply, but to use on a PC its not plug & play you have to install printer drivers, the instructions are in the video which is good because the included instruction manual is so tiny you need a magnifying glass to read it. Overall, if you are looking for something to print from your phone while away from your home printer this is great for that. Anything else, not really.

I got this printer because I thought it would be great for when I travel and spend weeks where there is no printer. It is light and compact, and while the thermal paper is odd, it is functional. Once I got it set up to print with my Mac, it worked fine. Getting there was tough. Charger port and connection port is the same so you cannot plug in printer to an outlet if battery is low. Battery life is reasonable. I wanted to use sheet paper to avoid the inevitable curl of the rolled paper. I bought US 8.5x11 inch letter-size paper, because the description says A4 or US Letter-Size paper (though they’ve added incorrect dimensions for US letter). It only takes A4. So, I cut the 8.5-inch-wide paper to 8.25 inches with my paper cutter. From there, I had nothing but trouble, and support from the company was slow and confusing. At one point, customer service at Jadens sent a photo showing how to load the paper, but it was completely backward. The tiny manual included explains how to use sheet paper, referring to “pearl cotton” and feeding the paper until the printer pulls it inside. All inaccurate. The company rep had no idea why the manual read that way. If you load it so the printer pulls the paper inside, it starts the printing about 1/3 of the way down the page (see image). After much frustration and several email messages, my daughter figured out how to print with sheet paper. Note that this printer’s head requires you to load it with the thermal paper’s “Print This Side Up” wording actually down, not up. The Jadens rep did provide that information to me. If you want to print thermal sheet paper in the Jadens printer: 1. Open printer 2. Remove rolled paper 3. Place sheet of thermal paper with Print This Side facing downward 4. Line paper up so that it touches the teeth on the cutter 5. Close printer 6. If needed, press and hold printer’s print button to get green light 7. Send document to printer In short, this thermal printer does what I wanted – allow me to print from my Mac (or my phone, but that’s another long story) when I am traveling. I can use roll or sheet paper in it. The print quality is OK. The printer is fairly light and nicely compact. IF you can get it set up to use, it’s a nice travel printer. Good luck getting there.

My daughter lost the box and direction on day one. We had no idea what app to download. We looked up the logo “peripage” on the App Store and it was the only one! Downloaded so fast! You must allow Bluetooth and picture library access to the app when it asks. Turn on printer w bear button until it lights up. Then, You only have to hit the little blue plus in the upper right corner of the app to connect to the printer. (Make sure your Bluetooth is already on). Then print! It’s that easy! I work in tech and if all printers worked this easily, half of us would not have jobs! We have only used this off an apple phone (eye-phone). It resized images itself. The printing is super fast and accurate on black and white line drawing pictures. If you print words, they will stretch to the size of paper so keep that in mind. It also isn’t great for printing pictures of things or landscapes that aren’t black and white line drawings. This is a thermal printer only, so if you don’t understand what that means, do a quick online search on thermal printer capabilities. Understand that you cannot reload this will normal white paper. You will have to find a roll of thermal printer paper in this exact width. If you’ve never thermal printed, do some research. It’s a bit glossier than regular paper, as well. The only issue we had is it prints the original picture. So if you crop and add words on your photo in your phone’s photo library, they will not show up in the app or print. This is an awesome idea for kids, because it is so easy they can do it all themselves INSTEAD OF BREAKING YOUR PRINTER. Haha! If you need a printer for docs/receipts on the go, this would be perfect as well. Honestly this is the easiest printer in the world.

I got this to have a backup for the odd occasion when I have to print something, because my main printer always seems to have trouble whenever I need it. For this purpose I think this is a useful device. The print quality is a little patchy in places, but overall not bad. The included thermal roll worked okay. Not sure about how it compares to other rolls of thermal paper, but its sort of thin and has some noticeable vertical gray lines if you look closely. I will note here that you cant recycle thermal paper, so this might not be as environmentally friendly as regular printing. If youre printing from a roll, the paper will still be rolled up when it comes out, so youll want to make sure it doesnt get stuck on the surface as it leaves the printer, plus youll want to flatten it somehow after. I didnt try it, but you can feed in flat sheets from the back of the printer if you prefer. Tearing off the printed sheets was not too hard and they usually tore off cleanly. The Android app for this worked okay for me. Easy to use and no major problems with it. I could easily grab documents to print from Google Drive etc. I dont think youd want to print anything really important on this, but its fine for some casual printing. Especially if youre on the go, as its pretty light and convenient to pick up and take with you.

I’m not a fan of the app you must use to print, it’s a bit clunky on the iPad and it must be in portrait mode to be useful. But the printer itself is perfect for traveling, like if you need to print boarding passes or event tickets, etc. The included paper is far too thin to use for anything official. However it serves its purpose. I still wish I could use it without the app, so I removed a star for the app

After receiving it, I found that this portable printer is not easy to use, the printing paper will run out quickly, and it is not convenient.

The good news about this printer is that it prints beautifully on thermal paper. Unfortunately, the bad news outweighs the good news. 1) After much time and frustration, it became evident that this printer will NOT work on a laptop with an M-1 chipset. 2) Instructions were all of 4 TINY pages, in TINY type. 3) After careful inspection, I discovered the plastic clips to adjust paper width, as well as a scale embossed into the plastic in front of the well where roll paper is placed. 4) In spite of the print being clear on the printed page, its important to realize that using a roll of thermal paper results in pages that roll up. I didnt have any full-sheet thermal paper at hand, but I would ONLY use the rolled paper in case of dire emergency (see photo). 5) I was able to network from my M-1 machine to the other laptop, and tried to print a PDF label. I was able to successfully change the margin clips and use fanfold label stock. If you look at the photos, you can see what SHOULD have printed (white type) compared to what actually printed. SUMMARY--I would NEVER try to use this for printing on anything other than single-sheet thermal paper. For that, (I can assume from the print results from roll paper) I would expect excellent results.

I had a really hard time rating this item. We thought it would be handy to have. But for the life of me I haven’t been able to get it to work. Operator error? Quite possibly.