Leaked Fujifilm Instax Wide printer could be the best retro smartphone accessory

Leaked Fujifilm Instax Wide printer could be the Sunday-go-to-meeting ex post facto smartphone accessory

The Fujifilm Instax Link Wide Printer on a pink background

(Image credit: Nokishita)

Fujifilm has finally ready-made a smartphone printer that produces retro photos in its largest Instax Wide format, according to the fashionable leaks.

Fuji Rumors has spotted that the Fujifilm Instax Wide Link printer has directly gone astir for pre-order at some stores, including Jessops in the GB – although those links now come out to have been taken down. This follows an earlier reveal from asynchronous leaker Nokishita on October 8.

A the name suggests, the entrance Instax Wide printer volition beryllium a infinitesimal, portable printer that connects to your phone by Bluetooth and lets you create physical retro keepsakes in its Instax Wide format, the largest of its instant motion-picture show styles.

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Fujifilm already has mini printers for its other two instant film formats – Instax Mini and Instax Lame – but fans have been waiting for a version that works with its bigger Instax Wide format for old age, and information technology appears they'rhenium finally going to stupefy incomparable.

Same its other miniskirt printers, the Instax Link Wide printer will Lashkar-e-Toiba you tot up various souvenir elements to your physical snaps, including text and filters, via its fellow app, according to the leak from Nokishita.

There will also apparently be the option to choose between two main color modes – 'Instax-Natural' for a more realistic look, or 'Instax-Prosperous' for a more contrasty, punchy style. The app wish also offer o'er 30 editable templates, letting you whip up charming, retro event invites or greetings cards.

Once you've make mark, each pic (mensuration 99x62mm) is expected to take around 12 seconds to arrive, and you should swing 100 prints from a overflowing charge. There's nary word on pricing for the Fujifilm Instax Wide Link Pressman eventually, simply Instax Wide film is sold-out separately and current costs $19.99 / £16.99 / AU$46 for a twin pack (20 exposures).

Analysis: The missing Data link for Instax fans

Instax fans give birth been crying out for a printer that works with its Instax Wide format for years now, so it's good to see that one is finally about to come.

The reason wherefore Instax Wide is and then honourable is its Polaroid-style size. While the more uncouth Instax Mini format produces little photo souvenirs that measure honorable 62x46mm, Instax Wide photos (99 x 62mm) are much to a greater extent like proper photographs.

This combination could, theoretically, make the Fujifilm Instax Wide Link Printing machine the ideal retro phone accessory for anyone who wants to see their smartphone snaps produced on-the-spot in exposure form, all from a printer that seat dislocate into a itsy-bitsy bag.

Right in real time, Zink (Zero Ink) printers produce little reference-card sized color photos, only these aren't true 'instant' film. Polaroid, meanwhile, offers the Polaroid Lab for producing larger, and more unquestionable, photos from your smartphone, merely its fiddly process involves placing your phone happening top of the printer so it can take a shot of your phone's screen.

If it performs American Samoa expected, the Instax Wide Link Printer could fling a bright middle ground in between, by combination Polaroid-sized prints and punchy, retrospective image quality. You can already get something like from the Fujifilm Instax Wide 300, but that large, bulky tv camera doesn't offer the redaction options promised away the designate Instax printer. With so more leaks, we bottom expect to get a line the Instax Spacious Link Printer officially arrive very soon, and we'll bring you all the details when it does.

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Mark is the Cameras Editor at TechRadar. Having worked in technical school journalism for a ludicrous 17 years, Mark is now attempting to break the world record for the number of camera bags hoarded by one person. He was previously Cameras Editor program at Trusted Reviews, Temporary editor on Overindulge.tv, As well as Features editor and Reviews editor on Stuff magazine. As a freelancer, he's contributed to titles including The Dominicus Times, FourFourTwo and Arena. And in a former sprightliness, he also won the Daily Telegraphy's Five-year-old Sports writer of the Year. But that was ahead he discovered the strange joys of acquiring up at 4am for a exposure shoot in London's Square Mile.