Late last year I decided that I wanted to print my Instagrams for the year. I investigated a lot of options but they were all too expensive (for me) – maybe you don’t mind paying that much… I do.
So I googled a bit and eventually mished and mashed a few things together, and this is now my system that works REALLY well.
Export your photos from IG via www.instaport.me. I only do this once a month, except when I first started and I had nearly a whole year to work through.
Extract from zip file (open the zip, copy all and paste into your folder)
Make sure they’re sorting themselves by date order.
Open Picasa and all your photos will fly in (it really does :))
Select all the ones you want in batches of 6 – I really do aim for one print a day (best I’ve done is probably 48 over a month). Collage each batch of 6 in a grid format to print in a 10 X 15 size. (6 squares make a standard 10 X 15 – I had to experiment a lot)
Print and put in your album.
Cost?
I bought this 200-page album at CNA for R90 last year. They now go for about R130. It will comfortably last at least 2 years.
Prints are R4,50 each at my local print shop. I love the quality so I pay more. If I’m printing more than 50, I get a discount per print. The last batch cost me R3,80 each because I printed 60.
I end up with about 10 every month which is at most R45….. and R540 for the year. As with most things, doing this on a monthly basis means it is very affordable.
All in all, you’re looking at R600 per year – R50 a month. Much cheaper than any of the places that print instagrams.
But if you’re looking for only a few select instagrams instead of a “book” concept as I was, then by all means, please use the specialist instagram printers.
I haven’t printed Instagram pictures but I’m not big on printing pictures anyway. Photo books I like and now that I’ve discovered shutter fly’s easy to use software I’ve ordered 3 books already in the past 3 months. I do like the collage idea so I think will use it to “clean up” and have all the pictures in one place and in collage format
Photo books are great if you can stand the process and the expense of shipping here
I’m awful. I buy photo paper and print with my lexmark. (I don’t recommend lexmark!! FAR too pricey on ink, but it’s what I have… so I’m a bit stuffed.)
I’m sure that works out expensive but any printing is better than nothing!
I used to have a Lexmark yearrrrrrrs ago. I took it to Cash Converters 🙂
Great tip on pulling out Instagram photos for printing! I haven’t done this before, but I think I will now!
it’s really very easy once you get your head around it…
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! So cool and do-able! Pinning this right now!
Oh please show us on Instagram when done!