[elky] OT: small printer

From: Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:21:01 -0700

When I wake up in the middle of the night I get these weird ideas. Sometimes they even make sense. I think this is a good one, but I'm not sure. I thought about getting a small (4x6") photo printer to carry around with me at different places I shoot. I spose they'd be sorta like a Polaroid thing where a guy could get an instant photo of hisself standing by his car...a race team having a few brewskies (or other adult beverages...I was kinda surprised to see a lady holding a martini glass at one event last year. I guess I shouldn't say "surprised"...maybe just slightly unusual...maybe I'll do an album of strange stuff seen "on the scene"...what happens on the salt stays...well, not if I have my camera) after setting a record on the salt or just to use as advertising; a way of saying, "This is what I can do for you."

I'd like to find one that would do 3 things.

1. Have a battery pack so I could carry it with me, probably in a backpack,

2. Be able to print directly from the camera and

3. Be able to put a watermark on if I chose.

So far none of the printers I've seen can do all of these things. particularly the last. I know I could keep some sticky-backed business cards or labels and put on the back of 'em...so there are ways around some of the issues.

Polaroid DOES make something....but it only makes 2x3" prints.

http://www.amazon.com/Polaroid-CZA-10011B-Instant-Mobile-Printer/dp/B0019UGCLG/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1290603396&sr=1-5

PictBridge is another technology that might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PictBridge

Here's a Canon printer that seems like it could do some of the stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PIXMA-iP100-Mobile-Printer/dp/B0012W9APQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1290642799&sr=1-1

It's battery powered, weighs 4.4 pounds and makes 4x6 images. Might work.

Opinions solicited.

r
ps. Jim can 'splain...we set some kind record for the amount of snow in a short time in last nites storm....4 inches in 45 minutes or something like that.

[elky] OT: small printer

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