In this video I review the Polaroid Hi-Print Gen 2 (I call it my “instant printer P1” for this series) because I’m traveling overseas soon and I wanted a better way to keep memories. Honestly, digital photos are easy to lose in a camera roll—four years later you might find them, but what do they mean? My goal here is simple: print small sticker photos, put them in a book, and write notes next to them so the memories actually stay organized and tangible. The Hi-Print is a dye-sublimation printer, which is the big reason I’m even interested—because I don’t want to sacrifice image quality as a photographer. Dye-sub takes about a minute per print and the paper moves in and out, so you really need the printer flat on a table (bump the paper and you can ruin the print). But the payoff is solid detail and generally good color. Portraits look especially nice, with skin tones that I really like. The weaknesses I saw are in very bright/high-key images where details can disappear, and blues that can look oversaturated or a bit blotchy. I also cover size and usability (it’s about iPhone 16 Pro footprint but much thicker), quick cartridge loading (10 prints per cartridge), and cost: about €109 for the printer with 20 sheets, then roughly 74–75 cents per print. This is the first of several printers I’m reviewing, and I’ll do a bigger comparison later.