Manjula
The Poooli Printer is small enough to seem like a children’s toy, but smart enough to perform like a grown-up gadget. Once it is paired with a cell phone, it can be made to output images and text in the way of a toy printer. I bought my L1/L2 on a whim. I half-expected that it would be a disappointment, but it was priced just within “whim” levels for me. When it arrived, I admired it and thought it looked rather funny – that crazy little beak! – but I had to put it aside for several days because of work pressure. I will not pretend that set-up was “easy” – nothing worth doing ever is, in my opinion – but maybe that’s just me. The fact is, after charging the device, I was amazed to find that YES, my phone did “find” it and YES, when I gave it a “print” command, rrrr-rrr-rrrr … a tiny coupon-sized print-out emerged! It was just TOO cute. I was utterly enchanted. Maybe some customers will be irritated to find that they have to make an effort to figure out how to make it work. Just like with normal-size printers, this one MUST be paired with some other device (I used my Samsung phone). It might look like a toy but it isn’t really. It’s a tiny printer. And printers are not toys at all and must be treated with some respect, in order to work properly. To sum up: buy this charming little device for the pleasure of playing with it, but recognise that it’s not a toy.