Note that most 'Photo' printers up to 8.5x11 have card readers these days and can function as printers for your PC or dedicated photo printers.
-Adam Doug Franklin wrote: > Glen Tortorella wrote: > >> Thanks, Doug, for the detailed response. > > You're welcome. I probably forgot some options. Oh yeah, option (4) > would be "have a buddy that does his own digital printing and trade him > beer for prints of your shots". :-) > >> I like options (1) and >> (1a); however, I do not discern any difference between these two >> options. It seems like in either case I would just buy a printer. >> Is there any other difference? > > (1a) is a subset of (1). > > (1a) is talking about printers that /only/ print photos, and the > inexpensive ones often top out at 5" x 7" prints. They tend to take > "all in one" ink cartridges and some even have packaged paper cassettes. > The emphasis is on low entry cost and nearly-one-button ease of use, > not control or, to a certain degree, quality. They can eat you up on > running costs just like the cheap inkjet computer printers. > > (1) is talking about more expensive and more flexible printers that you > must connect to a computer to use. These usually go up to at least A4 > or 8.5" x 11" paper size. They can have from one to eight or nine ink > cartridges. You can put any of dozens of cut sheet paper types in them. > You can control the color better. > > The difference between (1) and (1a) is sort of like the difference > between using an SLR and a covey of lenses versus using a point and > shoot camera. :-) > >> Also, is there a cable that runs >> between the printer and camera body? > > Maybe, maybe not, depending on the printer and camera body in question. > For some of them, you just take the memory card out of the camera and > plug it into the printer and press a few buttons and /voila/, prints! > Or sometimes you connect the camera to the printer via a USB cable or > something. It just depends on the devices in question. > > Same things apply to the camera and the computer. Most folks around the > PDML seem to take the card out and use a card reader on the computer to > get the photos into the hard drive, myself included. Some DSLRs can > also be connected to the 'puter via a specialized USB or Firewire cable > that comes with the camera and you can extract the photos from the > camera that way. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
