One station.
Print, text, email, or scan.
Guests walk up, find their photos, and get them their way — a printed keepsake, a text, an email, or a quick QR scan. You decide which options are on.
The kiosk is rebuilt in HTML from the capture app, with real frames from AGC Annual Convention (Autodesk, 2,047 photos). The wall is the event — one photo from each sitting, so it is that many different guests. What the guest gets back is their own sitting, S-E16A48F1: all 8 of their photos and nobody else’s. The phone number is a sample.
A guest’s one minute at the station
From “where are my photos?” to photos in hand.
On the station while the photographer’s still shooting
The station isn’t a place photos go after the event — it fills up live, as your team shoots. A guest photographed during cocktail hour finds that photo at the station before dinner. And it only shows what it should: branded, current, guest-ready photos. Staff copies and duplicates are filtered out automatically.
- New photos appear as they’re captured and branded
- Only guest-ready photos show — originals and staff shots stay hidden, automatically
- Pre-cache the whole event on the device before doors open
An open wall, or a private lookup
A holiday party wants everyone flipping through the night’s photos together. A headshot activation wants each person to see exactly one face: their own. Same station, two modes — pick per event.
- Gallery mode: browse every session, newest first
- Private mode: phone or email lookup shows a guest only their photos
- Walks back to the welcome screen on its own between guests
- Exit is PIN-locked, so curious fingers can’t leave kiosk mode
Prints without a print person
Auto-print every photo as it arrives, or let guests print on demand. Per-guest limits keep the media roll honest — one print each, three, five, or open bar. Everything comes out branded: borders, logos, event date.
- DNP dye-sub printers (DS620A, DS820, RX1) through a Mac print station
- One Mac can drive several printers at once
- Auto-print on arrival or tap-to-print on demand
- Per-guest caps that reset every event
- Live queue status — you see every job from the portal
Every guest leaves with their photos — their way
Some want a print in hand. Some want it texted. Some just scan and go. One station handles all of it, and you choose what's on.
Common questions
What can the Sharing Station do besides print?
It's one flexible delivery hub. Guests walk up, find their photos, and get them their way — a branded print, a text, an email, or a quick QR scan to their phone. You decide which options are on per event: print-only, digital-only, or all four. Printing is a first-class mode, not the only one.
Can I run it without a printer?
Yes. Turn printing off and run it fully digital — text, email, and scan-to-phone. It's perfect for events with no printer, or where you want guests to leave with their gallery rather than a single print. Flip printing back on any time and it's front-and-center again.
Which printers does it support?
DNP dye-sub printers (DS620A, DS820, RX1), the event-printing standard, run from a Mac print station. Other printers the Mac can print to, including Mitsubishi models, work through the same station. Ask us before you buy a printer for BrandStudio.
Do I need a laptop on site to print?
Today, yes: printing runs through a Mac print station, and one Mac can drive several printers at once. Printing straight from an iPad to a DNP DS620A or DS820A over USB-C is built and on the bench now; it switches on once it has passed that testing.
Why only the DS620A and DS820A for direct printing?
Because we test on the actual hardware. Driving a dye-sub straight from an iPad means speaking that printer's own language over USB — there is no generic driver to lean on, so every model has to be put on the bench and proven print by print. Those two are the ones on the bench. Everything else prints through a Mac station.
Does direct USB printing work from an iPhone?
No — when it switches on, it will need an iPad with an M-series chip (iPad Pro or iPad Air, M1 or newer) running a current iPadOS. That is an Apple limitation on the kind of driver an app is allowed to bring with it, not something we can work around. On an iPhone, or an older iPad, printing goes through a Mac print station as usual.
How does it keep the photo area clear?
The Sharing Station is a dedicated, self-serve spot away from the camera. Guests step out of the photo-op area to find and share their photos (by browsing, or looking themselves up by phone, email, or QR code), so your photographer keeps shooting and the line keeps moving.
Can I cap how many prints each guest gets?
Yes. Per-guest print limits are configurable — 1, 3, 5, unlimited, or whatever matches your paper budget. Once a guest hits their limit, the station says so; their photos are still in the gallery link they already have. The limit is set per event, so repeat attendees aren't penalized across events.
Deliver photos any way
your guests want them.
Still love prints? Leave printing on and it's front-and-center — the Sharing Station does everything a print kiosk does, and more. Set it up in minutes.