It is named after the inventor, American scientist Edwin Land, who developed a process for self-developing photography between 1943 and 1947.
[5] The photography developing process, invented by Polaroid founder Edwin Land, employs diffusion transfer to move the dyes from the negative to the positive via a reagent.
The instant color process is much more complex, involving a negative which contains three layers of emulsion sensitive to blue, green, and red.
Underneath each layer are dye developing molecules in their complementary colors of yellow, magenta, and cyan.
In 1972, integral film was introduced which did not require the user to time the development or peel apart the negative from the positive.
[6] Meanwhile, Bob Crowley, New55, the investor David Bohnett and Florian Kaps, known as the founder of Impossible Project (now Polaroid B.V.), managed to produce packfilm for the folding colourpack cameras under the label New55.
[7] Supersence (also founded by Florian Kaps) currently produces single-shot packs handmade from original 8x10 film manufactured by Polaroid named ONE INSTANT.