PC World reports that various camera makers are working on a standard to ease photo printing.
A group of six digital still camera makers and printer vendors, including Sony and Hewlett-Packard, have jointly proposed a new industry standard that allows images recorded by a digital still camera to be printed out without using a computer, they announced on Monday.
The DPS standard—which is a name, not an acronym—is being proposed by Canon, Sony, HP, Fuji Photo Film, Olympus Optical, and Seiko Epson. […]
I’m pleased to hear that, though if I buy a new digicam within the next couple weeks (which is currently the plan), I suppose it won’t have that feature. C'est la vie.
but do you actually print pictures?
i’d also like to know how many people print directly from a camera/memory card without touching up the picture a bit.
I print pictures all the time. Usually without using the computer. And almost always without touching them up.
It’s pretty braindead, really. You remove the card from the camera (Canon 3020), insert it into the printer (HP Photosmart 100), choose the picture number (that’s the only tricky part), and push the print button. With the exception of knowing the picture number, it’s easier to do it that way than it is to actually download the pictures to the computer and print from there.
But I’m mostly taking pictures either to share with people via email or to print out so that I have reference photos to paint by.