Whip out and use your new digital camera at a party and two things are likely to happen.
First, friends and family will be amazed that they can see the picture you just took seconds before on the camera’s 2-inch LCD screen. It might even prompt countless requests for copies.
And then someone will ask this question: "So, how do you get a print?’’
A sensible inquiry. And one for which the photo industry has an increasingly thorough answer.
What to expect:
Consumer digital photographers will soon find it much easier to convert their pixels into good-looking prints of virtually any size -- even, under certain circumstances, larger than 8-by-10.
They’ll also get help in doing more with their images, such as designing and printing customized greeting cards, calendars, photo books, collages and more.
The key: A new set of photographic products and services built exclusively around the needs of digital photographers. The new machines read digital images and offer simple touch-screen ways to order customized photographic prints and other printed material.
Some will be obvious, such as self-service kiosks that sit on the retailer’s front counter. Others will be back-shop operations designed to get you to think of your digital camera memory card like a roll of film.
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