Liene M100 4x6'' Photo Printer, Wi-Fi Picture Printer, 20 Sheets, Full-Color Photo, Instant Phone Printer for iPhone, Android, Smartphone, Thermal Dye Sublimation, Portable Photo Printer for Home Use

This is a great little printer. It is easy to set up and use, and the picture quality is excellent! I had a problem with printing and received wonderful customer service from Liene. They worked with me to troubleshoot the problem and eventually sent me a brand new ink cartridge, which fixed the problem. A friend of mine purchased one after seeing mine, and I have already purchased another one to give to my mother for Christmas.

I got this as a part of a "paper" anniversary gift and I'm (overall) very happy with it! Pros: - It prints pretty good quality photos - Easy to get up and running/set up - Seems to print around 10 (ish) photos before you need a new cart - Nice size - Easy to put a new cartridge in or more printer paper Cons: - Does take a second before it starts printing - If scrolling for too long to find a photo, it will turn off and you have to reconnect the printer to your phone (though that could be seen as a pro as well if you forget to turn it off) - A bit annoying it connects through your wifi vs bluetooth because then you're disconnected to wifi on your phone which can slow down scrolling on google photos or when using apps to make collages - Cuts off things in a photo vs fitting the photo to the size of photo sheet Overall very happy with this printer because it's doing what I want it to do. The pictures I've attached are different in sizing and stuff because I'll sometimes screenshot photos zoomed out on my iPhone so it prevents the printer from cutting things off (just incase you're wondering how I got some of my photos to be like they are). Side note, the scribbles on the kids faces are only because those aren't my kids and I don't want to post them without permission!

what is so special about this photo you may ask? let me tell you: this is a photo from a Thermal printer that I got to do prints on the go without needing external WiFi. in the description says "fingerprint proof, waterproof, anti-oxidation, and non-yellowing" but is missing scratch resistant. this photo was in the back of my BF's Subaru for idk how long, bouncing around with stuff on top that would have destroyed any other photo, or even paper, and when I pulled it out to inspect it, it only had a little smidge on it that came off with no issues or residue left behind. still has a nice glossy look to it as well. another cool feature about this printer is I have a little power inverter ($25+ tax at harbor freight) that I was able to use to print a photo in my car (with it running for full battery power) with no issues, hiccups and printed perfectly easy to set up, easy to use, the print quality is amazing and the photos are pretty tough. a little expensive to start (a little over $100) but after that it's $40 for extra paper and cartridges. This is based off of MY personal use of this item and how awesome it is. there is NO endorsement going on, no one is getting paid.

I bought this as my primary printer is a color laser printer, and so I needed something that could handle picture and ID photo printing. I despise inkjet printers since I don't use them often enough to keep the ink from drying out and clogging the nozzle. That left a dye sublimation printer like this little Liene. It's as reliable as my laser printer even without regular use, delivers prints that are every bit as good as photo printing services, and it's relatively cheap per print if you buy the cartridges in bulk. It's also extremely easy to use, especially from a phone. Just connect to the printer Wi-Fi, open it's companion app, and you're off. I also use it for ID photo prints and not only is it great for that, but the app even helps you size and crop the photos to match the size/composition requirements. Overall this is is an amazing little printer!

This is a great printer. I’m printing digital photos from my computer and phone to put together albums for my kids. Very clear pictures with perfect color. The size is perfect for desktop use. I have an iMac and at first I thought I needed to download the driver and couldn’t find one. I contacted the Liene support by email and they were very prompt in responding. I have printed about 100 pictures so far and have Ben do happy with results. Each ink refills produces about 40 pictures. I’m very glad I purchased this printer.

[ Update July 18, 2025. The company got in touch regarding some of the observations in the review and has said they're working on software and documentation updates. I appreciate their response and for that reason I'm adding 1 star to the rating. If the software updates are good I'll definitely increase to 5 stars. Considering the excellent print quality, it's certainly worth 5 stars.] The print quality is fantastic. I've been taking and printing photographs for a long time and have never seen such excellent quality right out of the box, so to speak. The Liene completely smokes my wife's older Epson 4x6 inkjet printer (which we stopped using due to connection problems and inkjet clogging). «Liene Image quality» Given a properly exposed and correctly color-balanced original image, you'll get outstanding print quality—see the photos I've attached to the review. The reproduction of the bright red in the one picture is flawless. (Both were taken by a mobile phone.) Neither photo has gained or lost contrast. The neutral areas are very clean. Highlight detail is preserved perfectly. The prints are 99% faithful to the originals. Excellent results. «Connection» We connected a Google Pixel 7A and an iPhone 16 to the printer without difficulty right after installing the Liene apps. The connections were instant—faster than Bluetooth. Now the bad news—why I gave the printer 3 stars instead of the 5 stars it deserves (!). Part of the problem is the software itself. There are also major documentation issues. Liene has got to improve its documentation! «Internet access disabled» Apparently by design, the Liene private wifi network is not meant to connect to the internet. On both Android and iPhone, when we connect the phones to the printer their internet access is disabled even if the phones are still connected to our home wifi. I'm guessing this is how it's supposed to work when a phone connects to a private wifi network lacking internet access. When we were running the Liene app and wanted to connect from within it to Liene's own site, we first had to turn off the phone-to-printer connection. It might all be by design but it was downright confusing until we realized the private network was the problem. Liene should document this _explicitly_. «Compatibility issue: Lenovo tablet» The Google Play store informed me that the Liene app can't be installed on my Lenovo tablet, which is running the latest Android version. The software just isn't compatible with that model. Disappointing. I don't know if this applies to other Android tablets or iPads. It's another thing Liene should document explicitly. (But, why not make the app compatible with tablets in the first place?) «Unpleasant bug in the iPhone app» When I print from the Android phone, when I'm done I can return immediately to my photo gallery (within the Liene app) and find something else to print. No such luck with the iPhone. After my wife made her first print on the iPhone, the Liene app has remained stuck on that first image. We haven't been able to "clear" the photo and display her photo gallery again within the app. It seems to me we'll have to uninstall and reinstall the app on her phone. But then we might have the same problem again. Super annoying. She did find a workaround: She opens the iPhone's photo gallery, picks one or more image(s), and prints directly to the Liene. But then she can't select certain features provided by the Liene app. She's ok with it for now, but it's far from ideal. That bug needs fixing. The workaround doesn't work at all on my Android phone. When I try it, I get only an error message saying that the phone can't find the printer, even though they are already connected. It's another thing Liene needs to fix. «Annoying design flaw in the Android app» I was kind of astonished that I can print only one image at a time via the Liene app. It does not support selecting more than one image at a time. Come on, Liene—why limit the software that way? It isn't exactly a benefit to the user. Conclusion: So we figured out how to deal with these issues, and as I say the print quality is outstanding. We'll live with limitations for now considering the high quality prints. But Liene REALLY needs to work on its software issues and documentation.

Great color. Prints looks really good. I'm getting better color printing JPGs directly from the phone or using a basic app like Preview on the Mac, vs directly out of Photoshop. B&W looks faithful as well. Edit: I did get the USB connection working on the Mac, I'm unsure why it did not work out of the box. Connection is a bit of a irritation with me. I can not get the USB connection to be recognized on the Mac, so I have to use the device's built it wifi hotspot (it does not connect to your wifi, it only has it's own), which means that if I wasn't also network hardwired, I would have no internet while printing from the Mac. As far as I can tell so far, there no way to set the sleep time on the device. I'd like to use this on set to spit out quick proofs throughout the day. The printer goes to sleep though, and then it shuts off it's wifi, which means that I have to turn it back on and reconnect to the printers wifi. A small but irritating gripe, when what I would like to do is set this up in a corner and send prints to it through out the day. The iOS app is OK, it does feel like a bit few too many step to print the way I'd like to, it would be nice if I could set up some printing defaults (uncropped, border, etc). 5 Stars now that printing via USB on Mac is sorted. It still sleeps, so I have to make sure to turn it back on if I take a break of more than a minute or two. Update after a couple weeks and hundreds of prints. It's almost flawless. I've had exactly two printing errors in almost 400 prints. One was a small dot, that might have been debris on the paper or maybe a missing bit of dye on the ink ribbon. The second error was that it went through a print cycle when it was out of paper, wasting a prints worth of ink. Still, much much better than an ink jet printer. I'm loving this little printer, it's really great to get all these images off my phone's camera roll, and the mountain of just walking around images I shoot with my pocket camera.

This little photo printer works very well. We were looking for something to print small pictures quickly for our kids. And this does just that. It prints fast and well. The pics are quality.