Liene at IFA 2026: What We Brought to Berlin

IFA Berlin wrapped on September 8, and Liene spent all five days of it in Hall 17, Booth 239. If the show is new to you, IFA is the world's biggest consumer tech event, the September fixture where the industry brings what it's building to Berlin under this year's theme, The Future is Now.

The final tally for 2026 came to 240,000 visitors from 155 countries and more than 2,000 exhibitors over the five days, up from around 220,000 visitors the year before, and for one week a small corner of that belonged to a sticker wall, three printers, and a question.

Pick a Sticker. Place It Where You Stand.

The front of the booth asked one thing of everyone who walked past: Make Your Voice Stick. Three stickers, one choice, AI, HUMAN, or LOVE, and a wall to place your answer on. No explanation required, and honestly the explanations people offered anyway were half the fun of staffing the desk. Some visitors deliberated longer over the three stickers than most people spend on a phone contract, and by the end of the week the wall had turned into its own exhibit, a five-day poll conducted entirely in adhesive.

Three Platforms, Three Verbs

The booth itself ran on a simple structure: three colored platforms, three machines, three versions of the same promise.

Make Your Memories Stick belonged to the Amber M110, our 4x6 instant photo printer. It connects over Bluetooth, edits through the smart app, and its dual paper tray takes both 4x6" photo paper and 3x3" sticker paper, which meant booth visitors watched the same machine turn out framed-quality prints and square photo stickers back to back. The platform poster kept the pitch short: vivid, lasting prints, with automatic lamination doing the lasting part.

Make Your Ideas Stick was the PixCut S1's platform, and it drew the longest pauses of the week. It's the world's first AI-powered all-in-one photo printer and sticker cutter, a 2025 iF Design Award holder, and there is something about watching a sheet come out printed, laminated and already cut that translates into every language at a trade show. Berlin being the home of iF made that platform feel slightly like an away game played at home.

Make Your Personality Stick rounded out the row with the Pearl N200 Pro, the pocket-sized member of the family. Three-color dye-sublimation in a printer that fits in one hand, adhesive-backed photo stickers, and group Bluetooth pairing, which at a booth translates to several phones printing to the same little machine while their owners compare results.

Berlin, in Sticker Form

For the show, the Liene app carried an IFA Berlin 2026 edition of templates, three sticker packs built for the city: Berlin street art, Bauhaus geometric art, and European vintage travel. Alongside them ran a set of photo frames, a Bauhaus Berlin design, a Berlin collage marked "MY BERLIN MOMENT," and a pair of HALLO, BERLIN! brand frames in German and English. Visitors shot a photo at the booth, picked a frame, and walked away with their own Berlin moment printed and peeled, which is a better trade-show souvenir than a lanyard by roughly any measure you'd like to use.

The Sign Behind the TV

Booth copy usually exists to be walked past, but the panel behind our screen said the quiet part in full, and it reads the same at home as it did in Hall 17: "A handwritten note. A favorite photograph. A little reminder of someone you love. These are the things that bring us closer and make memories last." That's the whole company on one wall. We capture more moments than ever, most of them stay buried in our phones, and the machines exist to bring a few of the good ones back into the room.

The Giveaway

The Instagram side of the week ran on the same vote: visitors picked their sticker, snapped their Liene moment, and tagged @lienephotoprinter with #LieneAtIFA and #PixCutS1. Three winners took home a PixCut S1 each, announced over on our Instagram, and the #LieneAtIFA tag is worth a scroll for everyone's booth moments either way.

If You Weren't in Berlin

The nice thing about machines built for kitchen tables is that the booth demo and the home experience are the same experience. Everything on those three platforms prints the same way on a desk anywhere, the Berlin sticker packs live in the same free app, and this blog runs year-round as the slower, quieter version of Booth 239. Start with the full lineup, or with whichever of the three verbs sounded most like you.

Berlin, thanks for the week. Same hall next year, if they'll have us.

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