My local lab's digital kiosk has bloothooth for wireless transfer of images from camera to printer.
A. On 25/8/04 10:34 pm, "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cotty mused: > >> What I would say is that the industry is pushing this PictBridge thing, >> where cards can poop out of a camera and pop straight into a printer, as >> well as these automated printing machines, not to mention that labs are >> now geared up to printing straight from digital. I would hazzard a guess >> that about 95% of all digital images shot won't go through a computer >> unless to email friends and family. We are the exception. > > It won't be long now before the memory card rarely leaves the camera. > HP already offer printers where all you have to do is put the (HP) camera > onto a standard cradle built into the printer, and you're ready to print. > If you want to load the images onto your (HP) PC you can get a cradle > built in to the top of a mini-tower desktop system. > > My wife's new Casio ZX-40 (Sorry about that. At least it's a Pentax lens) > comes with one-touch image transfer software. If the camera is in the > charging cradle pushing a single button transfers all the new images to > a photo album on her PC (and would erase them from the SD card if she > had selected that option during initial configuration). > > In a couple of years time, though, wired transfers will be obsolescent; > most cameras will come with built-in 802.11s, and printers (and kiosks) > will be able to get the images from the camera using wireless transfer. >
