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Fujifilm is launching a new Instax Mini smartphone printer that produces finer details than its predecessors. The Instax Mini Link Plus features enhanced image processing compared to older Instax printers, and a similar industrial design to the Instax Mini Evo Cinema camera announced last week, which Fujifilm has now also revealed pricing for.
The Instax Mini Evo Cinema camera will be expensive for an Instax at $409.95, while the Mini Link Plus printer will cost $169.95. The Mini Evo Cinema camera, Mini Link Plus smartphone printer, and the updated Instax Mini Link smartphone app will be available in the US sometime in early February 2026.
The Instax Mini Link Plus features a new “Design Print” mode that focuses on fine details within the images it’s printing. This mode utilizes the printer’s improved image processing capabilities to more clearly reproduce small text and patterns, allowing users to print graphically detailed designs or preserve the legibility of signs and background text in their photographs.
You can see that the text in the printed illustration at the top-left of this image is still readable, even at a distance. Image: Fujifilm
It also provides a “Simple Print” mode for images with fewer details, and uses the same Instax Mini film as the $99 Instax Mini Link 3. That makes the Mini Link Plus a pricey upgrade, but one that may appeal to creatives like graphic designers and photographers who want to preserve finer details in their instant prints.
As for the Mini Evo Cinema camera, it can take photos and wirelessly print images from your phone. It can also capture video clips up to 15 seconds long, and allows users to apply 10 different vintage-style effects, including grainy, pale tones inspired by the 1930s or vibrant colors from the 1980s, using the built-in Gen Dial (also called the “Eras Dial” on the Japanese model).
The industrial Mini Evo Cinema design is inspired by a vintage 1965 Fujica Single-8 8mm film camera. Image: Fujifilm