Most polaroid style photo prints are lab paper with a white band printed along the bottom. Ours are genuine Fujifilm Instax film, so the border is a real edge you can feel.
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(And what it usually isn't.)
Search for polaroid style prints and most of what comes back is photo paper trimmed into a rectangle with a white margin printed onto it. On a screen it passes. In your hand it gives itself away in about a second: the border is ink, the sheet flexes like a postcard, and the surface is the same paper stock as any other order from the same lab.
Real instant film is built differently. Every sheet is a sealed packet of chemical layers wrapped in a plastic frame, which is why the white border sits slightly proud of the image instead of being part of it. The sheet is stiff, closer to a credit card than to paper, and the face has a deep gloss that catches light the way instant photos always have. That combination of thickness, gloss and a physical frame is what people are reaching for when they say "polaroid style" — not the shape of the border.
One honest note: Polaroid is a brand, and we don't use Polaroid-brand film. We print on Fujifilm Instax, the instant film most people are actually picturing. If you want the full breakdown of how the two films differ in color, contrast and price, we wrote Polaroid vs Instax.
Three steps, all in your phone's browser. No app, no account, no camera.
Pull them straight from your camera roll — saved posts and screenshots work too. Pick a pack of 5, 10 or 20 and upload that many.
Drag each photo to frame it inside the border, then choose Original, Instant, Vintage, Film or Dreamy. What you see is what gets printed.
Your photos go onto genuine Instax film and ship within 5 business days. Free USPS shipping with tracking, US addresses.
If you'd rather see the whole process written out first, how to turn photos into polaroids walks through which photos hold up on film and how to frame them before you order.
Two film sizes, three pack sizes each. Free US shipping is already in the price — no shipping line at checkout.
Mini is the classic shape — tall, small, easy to tape to a wall or tuck into a card. Square has a bigger image area and reads better in a frame or on a desk. There's a full rundown on the mini photo prints and square photo prints pages if you're torn.
One border style per order: pick Classic White or Monochrome when you choose your pack.
The border everyone pictures: white frame, wide strip along the bottom. It's the default for a reason — it works on a gallery wall, in a scrapbook, or taped above a desk, and the bottom strip is wide enough to hand-write a date or a name on.
Your photo converted to black and white before it hits the film. Good for busy backgrounds, mixed lighting, and any shot where the color was fighting the subject. Same white film frame, no color to distract from it.
More border styles are coming as we stock more film. For now these two are the ones we can print and ship today, and both work in Mini and Square — so every combination of polaroid style photo prints on this page is in stock right now.
Same photo, two very different objects. Here's where they split.
Neither one is wrong — a paper print is cheaper per photo and easier to order in bulk. But if the whole point is that it looks and feels like it came out of an instant camera, the film has to be film. Coming straight from a camera roll? Our digital to polaroid page covers the same flow from that angle.
No. Polaroid is a brand, and we don't use Polaroid-brand film. We print on genuine Fujifilm Instax film, which is the instant film most people picture when they say polaroid style prints. It's real chemical instant film with a physical white border, not paper with a border printed on it.
Fujifilm Instax. Mini film for 2.1" x 3.4" prints and Square film for 2.4" x 2.4" prints. It's the same film sold for Instax cameras, so the gloss, the border and the color character are identical to a shot that came straight out of one.
Yes. The whole thing runs in your phone's browser, so there's no app to install and no account to make. Upload straight from your camera roll, including screenshots and saved photos, then crop each one and pick a filter before you pay.
We print and ship your order within 5 business days. Shipping is free on every order and goes out by USPS with tracking, so you get a number to follow once your prints are on the way.
Not yet. We ship to US addresses only, and checkout will only accept a US shipping address. More countries are on the list, but everything on this page is US shipping today.
Pick your photos, choose a border, and we'll print them on genuine Instax. Starting at $18.
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