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

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.

So this is tiny but mighty! This printer is perfect for on the go, or when your regular printer is not working etc.. it’s printed in thermal paper and when it comes out it rolls right up. That’s not a big deal to me. I can flatten it out. I have only used it to print from my iPhone so far and it’s been easy. The instructions are so small though. I don’t know why they have to print those so time, but that is not worth taking a point away. I think everyone needs one of these. No real complaints from me. I’ve loved it so far!

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.

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

I love having these portsble printers.. easy to connect and use and portable.. print ink-free anytime and anywhere!!

I like the fact that how small it is and that you dont need to use ink. The setup is a little funny. Getting more paper for it isnt the easiest thing to find. I still recommend you may need to print something in a difficult situation. Oran Z

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.

This was made very well. Simple to use if youre familiar. Good product for the price. Happy and satisfied.

Here’s just a quick lesson on thermal printers that I wish I had heard before I ordered this. Thermal printers require a special kind of thermal paper, you cannot use regular printer paper. Also, thermal paper does not feel like normal paper, it is much thinner and has a slight glossy feel, basically like receipt paper. I do not believe there exists any thermal paper on the market right now that feels acceptably close to regular paper. I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable or professional submitting paperwork to someone or to a company on thermal paper, so I do not see the value in thermal printers. Now if you still want a thermal printer, note that this printer supports 8.26x11.69” paper only. Why on earth anyone would make a paper format that is just barely different than the universal standard of 8.5x11, I don’t know, but it isn’t their fault that paper format already existed. I did order this machine thinking it printed standard size paper, and I did order standard size thermal paper to print on this printer though which was annoying to find out. I was able to cut the sheets to make it fit, and the printer does come with a roll of thermal paper. As far as how well this printer prints, I uploaded a couple pictures of things I printed. The images I printed came out pretty well I thought, while the text document had some visible defects in how a few letters here and there printed. The text isn’t terrible, definitely decent enough, but I’m not impressed. The text document was printed from the roll the printer came with, while the image was printed from the thermal pepper sheets I ordered separately. You can see that on the thermal sheet the image starts halfway on the page, I could not get it to print normally because of the way you have to insert the sheets. You feed the sheet into the back of the printer and it automatically pulls in the sheet to halfway which basically makes printing sheets of paper impossible. Also note that I had to flip my thermal paper upside down from how the paper instructed me to print it in order to get the image to show up. The printer has an app that you can use to print things from your phone. It connects pretty quickly and the app has a user friendly layout. The app is a bit buggy though and you have to do things a certain way. Printing images is straight forward, but printing documents is a more involved process. There is a button that lets you open up your iPhone’s file app and select a document, but once selected it does not show up in the app. I was able to get things to print from google drive though, just select share/export->send a copy->select PeriPage app, then you can see the document in the app. I could not get the printer to print from my laptop wirelessly like the app claims. The printer stops automatically when paper runs out which is nice and it is easy to open the printer and change out paper. Overall though, I don’t see a use for this printer other than for printing receipt style documents.

I did have a hard time setting this printer up at first but once I got it going, I was quite impressed with the quality of print. It’s super convenient to be able to print black-and-white copies on the go. I’m happy with this printer.