The Fujifilm Instax Link Wide is a small, battery-operated device that transforms your smartphone photos into tiny physical images on instant camera film. It is perfect for those who miss taking Polaroid pictures or simply want to stare at photos on their phone’s screen without having to print them out. ..

The Fujifilm Instax Square Link printer is a small, square-shaped printer that prints photos using the old-school Polaroid format. It’s a fun little printer to use, and it’s especially good for people who are nostalgic for the old Polaroid format.

The Instax Link Wide is a new printer that is available in two colors, Ash White and Mocha Gray. The printer’s matte plastic exterior has a textured appearance with a diagonal pattern. This does not feel like a toy or a kid’s Instax product, unlike some earlier models. The Instax Link Wide is still portable even if it makes prints that are bigger than those from previous Instax products. With a thickness of 33.7mm and a weight of 340g, it can easily fit inside a bag.

The Instax Wide Printer is a printer that prints photos using Instax Wide film. It includes a stand to move it around the house, ten prints from one pack of film, and a power button situated front and centre. When the printer is connected, charging, or printing, this changes colors to represent those conditions.

The Instax Mini 9 is a small, easy-to-use printer that prints photos quickly and easily. The printer has a Micro-USB port on the bottom for charging, and the necessary cable is included in the package. The number of prints the device can produce on a single charge, according to Instax, varies depending on how long you leave the device turned on (such as if you are editing before printing). ..

Features

The Fujifilm Instax Link Wide printer is notable for its ability to print photos straight onto Fujifilm’s instant film and in a considerably wider format than other smartphone printers. The Wide Link printer requires the new Instax Wide film line, which is offered in monochrome, color, and formats with both black and white borders. ..

The Instax Link WIDE app is a necessary tool for printing using smartphones. The app allows users to upload images from their smartphone’s image gallery, and then they can use tools like basic crop and exposure fixes, color filters, in-app stickers, emojis, editable templates, sketch transfer, and collage features to improve the image.

The new Link Wide printer has an amazing feature that allows you to print QR codes onto photos that can link to a website, map location, audio recording, or hidden message. This is an amazing feature that has countless applications and we were really excited to get our hands on it. We created a collage with photos from our trip to Venice and it was one of our favorite prints. ..

The Instax Link WIDE app was actually quite good. The collage capabilities of the software were simple to use and allowed me to modify each individual photograph before combining them into a collage, move around the image placements, adjust text fonts and colors, and more. When you get into the creative process of designing your print and making modifications, the customizable templates on offer actually work quite well and complimented our works pretty nicely. At first, they may appear a little simplistic and immature. ..

Instax film is a type of photograph that is printed on small, square film sheets. The sheets are then developed and the photographs are printed on them. The Instax Link Wide is a new camera that takes pictures that are similar to those of the Instax Mini but are larger and have a greater effect. You don’t need to worry as much about framing your subject because the Link Wide’s 3:2 aspect ratio is closer to the average ratio of a digital camera or smartphone than Polaroid’s square crop. ..

The Instax-Rich setting on the app produces vibrant colors with some hues having greater punch than others. In the app’s options, you can change this to the Instax-Natural setting which produces a more subdued appearance more commonly associated with early instant film of the 1970s. We favored the Rich setting since it makes each print stand out significantly. Even in large landscape images, there is an outstanding level of clarity in the pictures. ..

Instant film cameras, such as the Instax Link Wide, produce sharper and more accurate photographs than digital cameras. However, they do not compare to inkjet printers in terms of overall sharpness, color accuracy, or clarity. ..

Battery Life

According to Fujifilm, the Instax Link Wide can print up to 100 pictures on a single charge. That wasn’t exactly what we discovered. We could get about 60–70 prints done before the device needed to be recharged, taking into account that it is only a few months old and has undergone numerous hands-on reviews. After 40 more prints, we reached 50% and recharged before leaving again. Still, 70 or so prints is not a bad number. The close to two-hour charge period is where the device does suffer a little. It takes a while to fully recharge because there is only a microUSB cord provided and no charger.

The Link Wide printer had some great features, but also had some major flaws. For instance, the automated pre-crop that was applied to the image while using the Link WIDE app and setting up photographs for printing was a major obstacle because it would not let me slightly zoom out despite their being space on all of the edges. Additionally, many of the printer’s stated features either fell short or had low quality and potential. For example, the automated pre-crop that was applied to the image while using the Link WIDE app and setting up photographs for printing did not work well at all, making it difficult to print large images.

The monochrome photographs in the pack tended to print either faded and without contrast, or with a slight green tint. Fixing this by re-printing the image after darker exposure modifications can make the photos “pop” a little bit more. ..

Price

Conclusion

The INSTAX Link Wide is a wireless printer that combines the ease of use and flexibility of a wireless printer with the impact of Fujifilm’s largest instant format. You can now print any photograph you have on your phone—whether it was taken with the phone, copied from another camera, or was simply downloaded—on paper that is nearly twice as wide as an INSTAX Mini.

INSTAX Wide is a new app from Fujifilm that lets you take and share photos with friends and family using the instant camera format. The app has some interesting additions, such as the ability to embed QR codes in the corner of each photo, which can be used to link to websites, maps, text messages, or even little audio samples. Although you cannot use text or audio messages for archiving because they are stored on Fujifilm’s servers and lose their validity after two years, they are nonetheless entertaining to use. ..