Review on Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1: Instant Smartphone Printer for High-Quality Photo Prints by Nakaishi Kiyoshi ᠌

Name: Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1: Instant Smartphone Printer for High-Quality Photo Prints
Item: Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1: Instant Smartphone Printer for High-Quality Photo Prints
Rating: 3

October 08, 2022

Not the best quality, but overall not bad.

In my opinion, the price does not match the quality at all.
This printer is more like a toy than a functional gadget, and you should not expect good quality photos from it. In my case, I'll play a few times and leave it to gather dust somewhere on a shelf.
It is absolutely inconvenient to use the Instax Share app on iOS. To print a photo that you took not now, but in the past, you need to follow the steps in strict sequence:
1. First, open the photos of interest on your smartphone so that they are downloaded from iCloud to the smartphone’s memory. If this is not done, the Instax Share application will display error messages and the inability to print photos
2. Open the Instax Share app, find the same photos that were just uploaded from iCloud again and select them for printing
3. Turn on the printer
4. Go to the Wi-Fi settings and connect your smartphone to the printer via a special access point that is distributed by the printer. That is, if you, for example, are now at home and connected to your home Wi-Fi, you need to temporarily disconnect from it.
5. Return to the Instax Share application again and now you can send photos for printing.
In addition, the application contains many shortcomings, for example, it is not optimized for modern smartphone resolutions.

Pros

You can instantly print absolutely any photo from your smartphone, as well as directly from the social networks Instagram, Facebook, etc. Using a dedicated smartphone app, photos can be processed, resized, applied filters, templates, and more before printing. Compact and mobile, lightweight, can be carried.

Cons

The quality of printed photos leaves much to be desired: sharpness and natural colors are lost, blurring appears. Not a well-thought-out and inconvenient system for connecting a printer to a smartphone, more on that in the comments. The high cost of one cartridge for 10 shots (currently about 700-800).