Plan your own onsite printing
Run your own print station alongside the booth. Snapbar experiences are digital-first and do not include printing services.
Event Day Operations
Written forEvent producersSnapbar does not provide onsite printing, printer hardware, or printing staff. Guests always receive their results digitally. If your event also needs physical prints, your team runs its own print station next to the booth.
Helpful links
Steps
Plan your print station
- 1Decide whether guests need physical prints in addition to their digital delivery.
- 2Source your own printer, paper, and a dedicated print device. Never print from the device guests are using for the microsite.
- 3Plan the workflow: a staff member watches incoming results and prints them from the print station.
Print from a laptop or Windows tablet
- 1Connect the printer to your device with a USB-C cable. The cable is not included with the printer.
- 2Open the downloaded image and select Print.
- 3Select the Liene Photo Printer and make sure the 4 x 6 inch size is selected.
Print from a smartphone
- 1Connect to the printer Wi-Fi network, named Liene Photo Printer. The default connection password is 12345678.
Join the printer network from your phone Wi-Fi settings. - 2Optional: under Settings, Cellular, turn on Wi-Fi Assist so the phone keeps internet access over 5G while connected to the printer.
Wi-Fi Assist keeps internet working over 5G while you are connected to the printer. - 3Save the result to your camera roll. The easiest way is to press and hold the image in the email and select Save to Photos.
Press and hold the photo in the email, then choose Save to Photos. - 4In Photos, tap the share button, select Print, then choose the printer and the 4 x 6 paper size.
Share, then Print: pick the Liene printer and the 4 x 6 inch paper size.
Run it on event day
- Run a print test with a real generated output using the actual event printer, paper, and network.
- Assign a staff member to own the print station for the whole event.
- Keep a fallback plan, such as pointing guests to their emailed result, in case the printer stops.
What to know
- Snapbar delivers every result digitally, so printing is something your team adds on its own. The dashboard has no print controls.
- Printing adds operational risk because it depends on hardware outside the platform. Build extra test time into the event schedule, and bring spare paper, ink or media, power strips, and cables.
- The connection steps above are for the Liene printers. On an older Windows computer you may need the driver from liene-life.com/pages/driver before the printer shows up in the print menu. The DNP DS620A uses its own drivers.
- The smartphone screenshots were taken on an iPhone, but the same process works on most phones.
- Compact dye-sublimation printers are the event standard. The Liene Amber line (M100, or M200 with a built-in battery) is simple and budget-friendly and uses its own auto-laminated 4x6 paper. The DNP DS620A is the premium pick, printing a 4x6 in about 8 seconds with professional quality. The helpful links above are recommendations, not requirements, and listings may change.
Tips
- Use a separate laptop or tablet for printing so the device running the microsite stays free for guests.
- Dye-sublimation photo printers are the usual choice for event prints. Test yours with the final output style, not a placeholder image.
- High-volume events should plan a second printer or a managed print vendor.
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