Digicam with instant prints?

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Paul Rubin wrote:
> A while back there was a Sony camera with a built-in printer, but by
> today's standards it was huge and slow. It's surely out of production
> by now.
>
> Is anything being made today, that's an alternative to a Polaroid? I
> mean you aim the camera and press a button, and the camera takes a
> picture and a print comes out immediately. There should be no
> kludges, no cables, no fumbling around with menus. One button, one
> press, and you get a print.
>
> Thanks.

There are some small, portable printers that either connect to a digicam
or accept a memory card. As far as I know, the atempts ot market a
digicam with a built-in printer, for polaroid film or otherwise,
resulted in an overly bulky product.

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Paul Rubin wrote:
> A while back there was a Sony camera with a built-in printer, but by
> today's standards it was huge and slow. It's surely out of production
> by now.
>
> Is anything being made today, that's an alternative to a Polaroid? I
> mean you aim the camera and press a button, and the camera takes a
> picture and a print comes out immediately. There should be no
> kludges, no cables, no fumbling around with menus. One button, one
> press, and you get a print.
>
> Thanks.

There are some small, portable printers that either connect to a digicam
or accept a memory card. As far as I know, the atempts ot market a
digicam with a built-in printer, for polaroid film or otherwise,
resulted in an overly bulky product.

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Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:

> A while back there was a Sony camera with a built-in printer, but by
> today's standards it was huge and slow. It's surely out of production
> by now.
>
> Is anything being made today, that's an alternative to a Polaroid? I
> mean you aim the camera and press a button, and the camera takes a
> picture and a print comes out immediately. There should be no
> kludges, no cables, no fumbling around with menus. One button, one
> press, and you get a print.

While it might not be a simple press one button like you want, why are you
ruling out a pictbridge printer where you connect the camera's USB cable to the
printer and select which print to make via a menu? Or a printer like my HP
375B that is both a pictbridge printer and has slots for memory cards (with a
little LCD screen so you can pick the picture you want to print). It is has a
battery in it, so I can take it with me and not need a power source. I took it
to my church when they were doing the Christmas pagent, and I was able to print
the best shots during the coffee hour.

--
Michael Meissner
email: mrmnews@the-meissners.org
http://www.the-meissners.org

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"Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:7xwtv2qs8q.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com...
> Michael Meissner <mrmnews@the-meissners.org> writes:
> > Or a printer like my HP 375B that is both a pictbridge
> > printer and has slots for memory cards (with a little LCD screen so
> > you can pick the picture you want to print).
>
> If it's really small, portable, and fast, it might be tolerable. Is
> it any of those things? I'm hoping for something no more cumbersome
> than a Polaroid camera (which are far from the tiniest of cameras).

You are asking for an aweful lot for a color photo printer. There is a big
difference between self-developing film and an electronic printing machine.
All that aside it looks like Polaroid may have an answer for you anyway -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ [...] 5?v=glance

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"Ken" <ken@ken.ken> writes:
> > If it's really small, portable, and fast, it might be tolerable. Is
> > it any of those things? I'm hoping for something no more cumbersome
> > than a Polaroid camera (which are far from the tiniest of cameras).
>
> You are asking for an aweful lot for a color photo printer. There is a big
> difference between self-developing film and an electronic printing machine.
> All that aside it looks like Polaroid may have an answer for you anyway -
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ [...] 55-7047115

Wow, cool. My guess is that printer uses Joycam film, which is ok for
this purpose. However, the C-711 has such a printer built-in, which is
even more convenient.