HiTi Digital Inc. P110S Mobile Home / Studio On-the-go Photo Printer

Product Description

The freedom of mobility can be obtained simply by powering up the HiTi P110S mobile photo printer. HiTi P110S, the latest professional portable photo printer is a compact size printer. With easy-carry appeal and user-friendly product design, HiTi P110S is the best and professional studio-on-the-go solution for the photographers who demand mobility while work.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B003LZUPP6
  

Price : $199.95
You Save : $49.05 (20%)

List Price : $249.00

Technical Details

• HiTi P110S is the all-new Studio-On-The-Go product with easy-carry appeal, allowing customers to bring their photo business anywhere.
• Stylish Compact Design: Weighs only 2.2kg (4.85 lbs), HiTi P110S is designed to be compact and portable.
• Standalone Operation: The standalone operatable HiTi P110S delivers unique design with ultra mobility and portability.
• User-definable Passport / ID Photo Formats: Hot Key Design: P110S offers user-definable short cut for ID photo printing;
• Cassette loading for both ribbon/consumable for ease-of-use
• Its ultra mobility and portability make it a superior mobile photo printer.
• Only one button, users can switch to the pre-set most commonly used ID formats.
• Utilizing a graphic user interface on a 2.5-inch color LCD, it is very easy to operate HiTi P110S printer without the need of a computer.
• Its mobile printing features are specially proposed for professional on-site photographers.

Customer Reviews

I run a photobooth company, and we bought this printer to replace a Canon Selphy CP780. The Canon is also dye sub, prints in 1 minute, and has great quality - but it only holds 18 sheets at a time. That means a lot of paper ; ink changing during an event while customers wait.

So we bought this printer for the 60 sheet capacity. During testing it worked ok, but not great. The paper feed would not work reliably if the paper tray was full, so we'd have to take some out each time. There were hairline scratches going the length of the photos, barely visible but annoying. And the prints took 1min 10sec, a little slower but still passable. Overall not great quality, but it seemed like it still might be adequate for our use.

During the first live event, it worked well for the first 15-30 minutes. Then the printer driver started showing a popup before every print that said something along the lines of "Please wait, printer driver is processing" and had a progress bar. During this time the CPU was idle (and so was the printer itself), so it was not truly processing anything - I believe this was a cooldown period. The manual stated that the if the printer overheated, it would pause long enough to cool down.

So the 1min 10sec print time become 3-5 minutes per print! Instead of a small wait for prints, we had customers waiting from 30 min up to an hour. At the end of the event, we were preventing people from leaving when they wanted.

On the positive side, we did contact support and they offered to ship it back to them at their cost to try to repair this. But with all the things wrong with this printer (paper feed, scratches, long print time) it leads me to believe these are systemic problems and not just related to my specific printer.

I was able to return this printer, and I'm glad I did. I was considering saving it as a backup printer, but even for that it's not useful. I'm keeping my CP780 as the backup printer, and we bought a Sony UP-CR10L to replace this. It's not in the same league at all (~$1000), but it is fast (20 sec prints), has good quality, holds 200 prints on a roll (no tear-off tabs), and the prints are cheaper.

Bottom line: Not recommended - definitely not for heavy usage, and really not even for light usage. For light use, I'd put up with the Canon CP780. For heavy usage, I'd recommend the UP-CR10L or the UPXC1, or a similar heavy-duty dye-sub printer. For medium usage (50 sheet capcity, <1min print time, ~$500) I haven't found any suitable printers yet.

I AM A SIMI-PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER WHO DOES A LOT OF EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY. IN A LOT OF SITUATIONS I AM REQUESTED TO SUPPLY A PRINT OF A SUBJECT ASAP THUS ENTER THE HITI P110S. A PHOTO IN LESS THAN 2 MINUTES AND THE ABILITY TO PRINT UP TO 60 QUALITY PHOTOS WITH PORTABILITY FOR 18.00 BUCKS OR LESS. TALK ABOUT A SERIOUS PROFIT MARGIN AWAY FROM THE STUDIO! I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND USING THE DRIVERS WITH THE SUPPLIED DISC. GO TO THE HITI WEB SITE AND DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION DRIVERS IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE THIS PRINTER WITH YOUR COMPUTER. THE SUPPLIED DRIVERS WILL SERIOUSLY SCREW UP YOUR COMPUTERS OPERATION, IE BOOT ROM ERRORS FOR VISTA

PLATFORM. ETC.

IF YOU ARE PRINTING DIRECT FROM A CAMERA OR SD CARD DO NOT USE OVER A 8GB CARD. 4GB WORKS BEST. DO NOT OVERLOAD THE PAPER TRAY OR FOR THAT MATTER RUN OUT OF PAPER WITH A PRINT IN QUE. IF YOU DO YOU WILL HAVE TO DELETE THE PRINT JOB IN QUE AND SHUT DOWN THE PRINTER AFTER LOADING PAPER TO RESUME PRINTING.

I REALLY LIKE THIS PRINTER AND THE HITI SUPPORT IS GREAT!