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A compact camera and a 4PASS printer

Where it turns up

Compact cameras and photo printers, at 74 € and 92 €.

Four passes, and the fourth is the product

Three layers of dye — yellow, magenta, cyan — then a clear laminate sealed over all three. That fourth pass is why a sublimation print can be handled, posted and stuck into a book, and why an inkjet print cannot.

Fifty-five seconds

The fastest print time published on that shelf. At a party where prints are handed round, a minute a print is four minutes for a group of four, and the figure decides whether the queue moves.

Credit-card size, and what that rules out

Five by 7.6 cm fits a wallet or a fridge door and is not a photograph for a frame. The printer on that shelf reaching postcard format costs more and prints an area nearly four-fold larger.

Every KODAK unit reviewed here

  • Photo printers

    KODAK Mini 2 Retro, 4PASS sublimation, 55 seconds

    DYE-SUBLIMATION, the original 4PASS process: three colour layers plus a transparent protective LAMINATION · ribbon-and-paper consumable, 38 sheets supplied · dye ribbon rather than ink · print size 5 by 7.6 cm, published in the title · borderless support not stated · one media path, Bluetooth from the KODAK Photo Printer app · iOS and Android · no colour profile availability mentioned · print time PUBLISHED at about 55 SECONDS · prints claimed resistant to fingerprints, water and fading

    Four-pass sublimation sealing every print under a laminate in about 55 seconds — the fastest published time on this shelf, at 80 € with 38 sheets.

    Best for: Small prints handled, posted and stuck into things — where the laminate matters more than the size.

    ≈ $80 / £80 / 80 €

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  • Compact cameras

    KODAK Pixpro FZ45, 16 MP, 4× optical zoom, AA batteries

    16 MP sensor stated · 4× OPTICAL zoom · no aperture published · 2.7 inch tilting LCD · 720p video · optical stabilisation mode · runs on AA batteries · no sensor size published

    No compact here costs less and still offers a genuinely optical zoom with an optical stabilisation mode, running on AA batteries rather than a proprietary cell — and stopping at 720p video.

    Best for: Travel somewhere batteries are easier to find than sockets, or a camera for someone who should not have to manage charging.

    ≈ $100 / £92 / 110 €

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Each amount in a write-up is what the listing showed when that page was written. The figure next to the product is pulled in as you read, and it is the one that counts.