Portable Instax Printing At Its Best @InstaxA #miniLink #InstaxSA #ProductReview

Hi Friends,

Instax camera gives you the instant pleasure to create your slambooks, journals, vision boards, and various other creative stuff that you can make in your own unique way. Even if you don't know how to make one, then just watch some of the YouTube channels or Pinterest posts and follow the step by step process and showcase it to your world. Taking inspiration from the other already live content is not a crime and your friends may or may not have seen the original content but your fun and laughter is much more for your family and friends. 

I received this Instax printer named miniLink Smartphone printer which can just connect wirelessly to your smartphone or tablets using the Bluetooth connection and then you can just download the miniLink app on your smartphone and then just create memories to cherish forever by just sending the command to print your favorite photos. Why this kind of cameras are getting so much traction in the Millenials market? Let's try to understand the same in this post along with the normal review of the device. 

1. Portability - The biggest factor for the power they have over the teenagers and other millennials is because of their small size and you can just buy the standard Instax films which are priced at around R179 for 10 prints and are available at all the stores near your home or in any mall easily. If you are going on a party, it's the best to create memories and something to carry back in terms of the prints in hand and that can go on your memories wall or slambook based on how much you value each other. It will go easily in your back pocket of your jeans with a loaded 10 prints and can last upto 100 prints. The speed of each print is just 15 seconds to come out once you hit the print button and then it will take around 60-90 seconds for the image to be visible on the print (image development time). The overall weight of the device is just less than 210 grams and can be easily placed inside your backpack, ladies purse or traveller's kit. The device can be charged using the mini-USB cable and comes with a non-removable Lithium-ion rechargeable battery. 

2. miniLink App - The miniLink app tells you all the stats about the battery of your printer along with the ability to change the frames of your photographs to add more fun to your general photos. There are around 33 frames currently available in the app from Happy Birthday to Merry Christmas to adding wings and some colors to your photos. You will see some in some of the photos I printed on the same. Along with the normal prints, there is also Party Print - Surprise mode where you won't know what going to come out if your 5 friends send you their favorite photos via Bluetooth which really brings fun to any party. Another one is you can take any of your prints from the videos you shot. Also, you can take your own Instax photos using the smartphone camera in the frame and then add some text as per your wish whose font can be changed and everything is under your control to create unique journals and photos. 

3. Other miniLink App Features - Collage and Split Print - Other than the mentioned above, you can select the layouts for the collage prints which offers up to 8 images in a single print and you can do your own layout for collage prints. Secondly, Split Print is so famous on the Instagram meaning that your photos will continue to the next print so this app offers 2 prints in various orientations (3 in particular) making it a great feature to try it out. 

4. Other miniLink App Features - Sketch, Edit and Print - This is one of my favorite features and equally unique for the brands who loves to show their fun sides as you can just take the logo of anything using this feature which can go on all your photos printed. This is as easy as just pointing the small dot within the frame to the logo, and then touch a button and the logo will be copied to be used in all your prints. It really gives me ideas to use THE LIFE'S WAY in all the photos if only I had own this printer and not had to return the same to the brand after the review period. 

5. DSLR Lovers and iPhone Lovers - The new features as already explained makes it great for all those people who are fans of Instax prints and wants to use their own high-end cameras to take photographs and not fall for the Instax camera which only goes till 5MP and are not so great in terms of picture quality. This miniLink printer gives you the power to control and add unique frames and messages on your DSLR quality photographs and you can still change the contrast, brightness, saturation, orientation, zoom in or out when you want to print the same. What I observed is that you should enhance the colors as polaroid prints is little bit dull so just click on auto-enhance feature where you get none, monochrome, sepia and auto. The photos printed in Auto is always great to be printed as it darkens the same which looks great on the Instax prints. 

6. miniLink Printer as Remote and Motion Controls - Not only this printer works as a remote to take selfies but also performs certain functions based on how you rotate the device, keep it in horizontal or vertical mode which makes it really unique as you can challenge your friends to tell all the features of this Instax gadget or can display your creative side to your friends. When in remote mode for selfies, little tilt forward and backwards can zoom-in and zoom-out the photo and then press power button on the printer to click the photo. Turning the printer upside down and pressing the power button will reprint the last print again. Placing your miniLink Printer in Vertical position will make the power button light go blue which means print mode and putting it horizontal on the ground or table, will bring it to orange mode which is party mode and the power button light also goes Orange. I really loved the changing colors on this RGB light placed around the power button. 

Creative use of the Instax prints for my 40th Birthday Card by my daughter Keisha on 22nd July 2020

7. Value for Money - Overall, this product is really great and comes in three colors - Dark Denim, Dusky Pink and Ash White and is priced around R1900 on takealot which makes it little costlier than the Instax mini 9 or 11 range of products and less than Instax SQ20 range of product. But I am sure that this offers a lot of features those cameras doesn't offer but they are also fun to use and comes in pastel colors for teenagers and adults alike. This is really a great gift for your teenage daughter or someone who loves creating journals and a fun device for any party but make sure to have loads and loads of Instax films available. 10 films packs gets finished in like 5 minutes or so when you have kids. This sure has the vibes to bring in child like curiosity and experimental learning into the life of its users for sure. 

Thanks Instax for sending the device for a 2 weeks review period and this is one of the device I would really want to win or own or gift. 

Cheers!!!

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