Have you ever wished there was a way to automatically print out and keep your favorite Instagram photos? Sure, there are companies like Postagram, which prints and sends your photos on a postcard for a fee, but until now, there hasn’t been an astonishingly easy way to get your Instagram photos on demand.
With that in mind, meet Instaprint.
What’s remarkable about this little printer is that you can set it to automatically print photos that are tagged at a specific location, or use a certain hashtag. It’s been used at events such as store openings and product launches, as well as The Grammys and Lady Gaga concerts.
Instaprints don’t use ink, and they can be daisy-chained together for faster printing. They’re controlled by your phone or computer over a Wi-Fi network using an Instaprint.me account.
The challenge now is to bring the product from prototype to the market.
BREAKFAST, the company behind Instaprint, is looking for funding for the project through Kickstarter. Just $11,000 of the $500,000 goal has been pledged, though there is still two months left to run.
To showcase the printer, Instaprint has set up a live stream. If you take an Instagram photo and tag it with #instaprint, you’ll see your image as it’s printed almost instantaneously. Pretty cool.
This may be ripe for abuse if knowledge of the defined location or hashtag for your printer falls into the wrong hands. It appears as though it’s going to be expensive too, with the lowest Kickstarter reward level at which you can receive an Instaprint for backing the project standing at $399.
Though it’s a slightly convoluted way of turning an iPhone into a Polaroid camera, it’s a neat idea. We just wish it’d be a little less expensive for the service it provides.
