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You know that friend who always takes great photos but isn’t the best at sharing them? At my last 4th of July party, I watched him take a great photo of me and my fiancée, but instead of asking him to participate when he had time, I walked away Liene’s N200 Pro portable photo printer From my bag. I asked to print that photo immediately and offered to print anything else he wanted.
Within minutes, it seemed as if half the audience had their phones out, ready to print a photo. By the end of the night, almost everyone went home with physical memories of that party.
Like many ’90s kids, I’ve seen no shortage of trends from my youth trying to make a comeback with the help of modern technology. Capturing a moment that you can physically preserve will always be more interesting to me than an Instagram shot, and over the past couple of years, we’ve seen photo printers become smaller, more capable, and significantly less expensive.
The team at Liene, makers of photo and label printers With a reputation for being easy to useI created something so portable that weighs less than a pound and is only 1.2 inches thick, making it an easy travel companion.
It doesn’t get any easier to use than this N200 printer. It charges via USB-C, which is convenient. On more than one occasion while testing this printer, I just plugged it into the car charger on my way to a meeting, and that was enough to print 25 copies over the course of more than an hour. Photo paper and ink cartridges are easy to install and leave little to no mess behind, aside from the little edge that snags each photo as it exits the printer. As long as you have a phone, you can use this printer.
Replacing an ink cartridge doesn’t get much easier than this.
Liene printers use thermal dye sublimation to create the images, which means each print is done in layers. You’ll see the photo paper move in and out of the machine several times with each print as the yellow, magenta, and blue ink is applied to create the image before it gets final lamination and exits the printer. This whole process takes just under 90 seconds, and the image quality is surprisingly good for a 3×2 print. And because the papers Liene sells for this printer are also stickers, you can easily remove the backing and stick the image onto anything you want.
If you want to quickly go from camera roll to print, Liene makes it super easy. But if you want to have some fun, you’ll find plenty of customization options. If you want to take photos through the app using old camera filters, that’s right on the home screen. Do you want a border around the image? It’s very easy, there are dozens of options that are constantly updated to reflect current holidays and sporting events.
The only part of the app that I didn’t use much was the collage function, but only because the 3 x 2 image is already very small and making it smaller wasn’t usually what friends around me asked for.
The photo paper slot is well hidden, but not easy to access.
the $100 version of this printer Includes 50 sheets of sticker paper and five ink cartridges. there $89 copy It comes with 10 sheets of label paper and one ink cartridge, but you instantly spend more the moment you need more paper or ink because a new box of paper and ink is $25. This also means each print comes out to about 50 cents, which is slightly less than the 65 cents per print average of competitors like Fujifilm and Canon.
What Liene has created with this printer is a fun conversation starter at the party. Little collages aren’t the most practical thing ever, but they’re undeniably fun to take and share at a cost that works for almost everyone.
If you’re the type of person who enjoys a good physical photo, and have friends to share something like this with, there’s a lot to like about this printer.
