Fujifilm instax Link WIDE 2 review

1. Verdict: the guest-book printer

Fujifilm instax Link WIDE 2

The only phone printer making a print wide enough for a group and a message beside it.

Buy it for

Weddings, parties, guest books, anyone whose prints need to hold more than two faces.

Skip it if

A pocket, or a tight budget. 357 g and $1.10 a shot.

• •A **3.9 x 2.4 inch** print on real instax WIDE film — about 2.2 times the area of an instax mini print.
• •**14 seconds** a print at 318 dpi over **Bluetooth 5.1**.
• •About **100 prints per charge**, charging in 1.5 to 2 hours.
• •Accepts JPEG, PNG, HEIF and DNG.
• •The current model: it replaced the gen-1 Link Wide, which older roundups still recommend.

Running cost: instax WIDE works out at $1.10 a shot. See every format’s cost.

How it scores8.0/10 overall

• Print size10
• Prints per charge10
• Print character10
• Cost per print5
• Portability5

Our editorial scoring, built from published specifications and reviews by outlets that test hardware — see how we pick. We have not handled these products, so these are not test results.

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Why the wide format matters

An instax mini print is 2.4 x 1.8 inches. Put five people in it and you have five very small faces. A WIDE print is 3.9 x 2.4 inches — about 2.2 times the area — and five people in it is a photograph.

There is a second consequence that matters just as much for events: there is room to write. In a guest book, a WIDE print leaves usable space beside the photograph for a message. An instax mini print leaves room for a signature. That is the difference between a book people write in and a book people sign.

Specifications

What it costs to run

instax WIDE film was $21.99 for a 20-exposure twin pack on 13 October 2026 — about $1.10 a shot. That is the second-most-expensive media on this site after Polaroid film, and the most expensive printer media.

Worth noting for context: a Canon SELPHY 4 x 6 print is a considerably larger photograph for about 39 cents. If print size is the goal and portability is not, the SELPHY is far better value — but it is not instant film and it does not fit in a bag.

Buying it for an event

This is the main use case, so the quantities matter more than the specifications. Budget about one photograph per two guests plus 20% spare. For 100 guests that is roughly 60 prints, which is three 20-exposure twin packs — about $66 of film.

The full method, including why 20% spare rather than 10%, is in how much film for a wedding.

What it is good at

• •Print size. The reason to own it, and nothing else in the phone-printer category comes close in this aspect ratio.
• •100 prints per charge. Enough for a whole wedding on one charge, which is not true of most printers here.
• •Real instax film, with the look and the white border.
• •Fully specified. Fujifilm publishes print time, resolution, battery life, charge time, dimensions and weight.
• •Pairs well with a WIDE camera. The standard event setup is an instax WIDE 400 for guests plus this printer for the photographs guests took on their own phones — both on the same film.

Where it falls short

• •$1.10 a shot. The most expensive printer media on this site. 120 prints is about $132 of film.
• •357 g and 139.9 mm wide. Not a pocket printer. It is a bag printer, which for an event is fine and for everyday carrying is not.
• •WIDE film is harder to buy. instax mini is in supermarkets; WIDE usually means a camera shop or an order. For an event, order well in advance.
• •Prints fade in sunlight, like all instant film.
• •No wired option. Bluetooth only.
• •Generation confusion in listings. Because the gen-1 Link Wide was widely reviewed, a lot of listings and roundups blur the two.

Alternatives

• •[instax mini Link 3](/photo-printers/instax-mini-link-3-review) — 210 g, 85 cents a shot, a quarter of the print area. The one to buy if it has to be pocketable.
• •[Canon SELPHY CP1500](/photo-printers/canon-selphy-cp1500-review) — a bigger 4 x 6 print at about 39 cents, but a desktop unit and not instant film.
• •Kodak Dock Plus Retro, $109.99 — 4 x 6 at about 40 cents, with a dock you plug a phone into.

Who should buy it

Buy the Link WIDE 2 for an event, specifically. It is the only phone printer that makes a print with room for a group and a handwritten message, which is exactly what a guest book needs, and its battery will get through a whole wedding.

Do not buy it as a general-purpose printer. It is too big to carry casually, its film is the most expensive printer media here, and for everyday use the mini version is cheaper in both senses.