You can connect your digital camera directly to this tiny printer for PC-free printing, but expect some limitations. By Daniel Grotta and Sally Wiener Grotta Fact File Click to view plug. Polaroid ColorShot Digital Photo Printer. Then, as with a consumer Polaroid camera, the exposed sheet of film is ejected, and it develops completely in about a minute. We tested a parallel and a USB unit and the Direct Connect Adapter.
Setup is simple and straightforward.
We recommend selecting the preview option, which shows you how the image will look. Prints cost a dollar a shot, so mistakes are costly. And the image size is a diminutive 2.9 by 3.6 inches. As expected, the USB model works almost twice as fast as the parallel unit. The USB printer took an average of 13.8 seconds after downloading to eject the sheet of film, and the parallel unit took 26.4 seconds.