Here’s how to easily create your own automatic Instagram printer, similar to Instaprint on Kickstarter, using Automator on a Mac, Ifttt.com and Dropbox.

Follow these steps.

Open Automator and choose to create a Folder Action.

Select the Folder to monitor for new images. This must be a folder in your Dropbox but doesn’t need to be in your Public folder. That’s up to you.

Add the ‘Get Specified Finder Items’ action to your automator script. This is required to test your script within Automator.

Add a ‘Print Image’s action to your automator script. Now you can select which printer to print to and adjust a few settings.

Now head off to Ifttt.com and create a task to ‘Print Instagram Photos’ to Dropbox.

Choose ‘New photo by anyone tagged’ or ‘New photo by you tagged’. Define the unique tag to search and specify the Dropbox folder path. It’s important you get this right.

And that’s it.

Update:

I just bought myself a Polaroid PoGo. It doesn’t show up as a regular printer because it’s bluetooth, so instead add ‘Run Applescript’ to your Automator workflow.

You will need the bluetooth address, which can be found via Preferences -> Bluetooth -> Show More Info.

on run {input, parameters}

tell application “Bluetooth File Exchange”
send file POSIX path of input as string to device “00-04-48-24-C8-C5″

end tell (* Bluetooth File Exchange *)

return input
end run

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