- 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
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,
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