How to upload digital photos to a printer.

The ability to take digital pictures is one of the most exciting advances in modern technology in recent years.There are many ways to enjoy your digital pictures.Digital images can be enjoyed as files on a computer screen or television monitor without ever being developed or printed.Many consumers still want the ability to develop or print their digital pictures, as they would with a film camera.For those who only want to do this occasionally, there are several options.Two of these include sending your photos through the internet to an online service, and have them mailed to you for a small fee.You can also take your pictures to your local drug store's one hour photo lab and have them printed there.For those who want to print their pictures more often, the option of buying a printer capable of quality photos may be the best option.

For those unfamiliar with digital cameras and how to get their pictures from the camera to a printer, they will be happy to learn that this process is very easy.There are three basic choices in data transfer.

• Use a cable between camera and a personal computer, and connect the printer to the same computer.
• Use a printer docking station, and connect the camera directly to the printer with no cable needed.
• If you camera is on a cellular phone, you can transmit the data wirelessly to the printer, if it has that ability, or to your personal computer.

Connecting the cable to a personal computer is the most popular choice among digital photographers for the simple reason that so many more options are available to those with personal computers.For example, let's say that your photograph has some imperfections in it, such as red eye, or the sharpness of the image is not quite the way you would like it, then you can use an image editing software to take care of these problems before printing it.You can also crop different image sizes, or extract part of the image to create an entirely new picture.The photographer is only limited by imagination.None of these options are available without a computer.

Another powerful reason that transferring the image files to a computer is the best choice is that you can store the image files on that computer, transfer them to another computer or media storage device, and print them as many times in the future as desired.Digital images never fade and never deteriorate.Printed pictures can be destroyed, will fade over time and can be lost.Of course, you can scan the printed pictures, and convert them to a digital image, but the quality will probably not be as good as the original digital image file, and you will need a computer or media storage device anyway to store the scanned image.

A digital camera will be sold with everything needed to transfer the picture to the computer.The most common way to connect a digital camera to a computer is by means of USB (Universal Serial Connector) cable, which is the most popular way to connect any device to a computer.Another method for use with cameras with digital video capability is by using a fire wire, which has a higher rate of data transfer.The printer also connects to the computer using a USB cable.

If none of the advantages of a personal computer, editing software, long term storage are desired, or if a consumer does not own a computer, but wants to print a lot of pictures, then a printer with a docking station may be the way to go.The camera can be inserted directly in to the docking station.Some printers have a cable hook up as well.Cell phone wireless data transfers are also available.

So, enjoy all the benefits of digital photography.Choose whatever method of printing which is right for you.

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