Leaders in digital imaging
market propose new industry standard for direct printing from
digital still cameras
January 25, 2003 Dubai Six leading digital imaging companies
have recently announced a new direct printing standard (DPS)
for the connection of digital cameras and photo printers. With
DPS, users will be able to connect a digital camera directly
to a digital photo printer and initiate prints directly from
the camera with no PC required. This new initiative was originally
developed by Canon, HP, Seiko Epson and Sony. Fuji and Olympus
later joined discussions and collectively the specification was
finalized.
"This initiative shows
a great sign of development for the printing industry as market
leaders come together to lay down a standard that will better
serve customers," said Khalil El Dalu, General Manager,
EPSON Middle East. "It will allow end
users the elasticity to create good quality photos."
DPS specifies an application
layer control protocol and is independent from any physical transport.
It was designed to be extensible for implementation on future
physical interfaces. The DPS version 1.0 document, which will
soon be formally published, is written for Universal Serial Bus
(USB) as a physical transport and Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP)
as data transfer protocol. Consumers can simply connect a DPS-enabled
digital still camera to a DPS-enabled printer, using the camera
to perform operations and easily print high-quality photos.
Until now, each company had
its own proprietary solution for direct printing without a computer
between their own branded digital still cameras and printers.
This situation has proven to be limiting to consumers, as they
are unable to achieve the same convenience and ease of use when
using a combination of products of different brands. DPS ensures
compatibility across digital cameras and printers, regardless
of brand, giving consumers the flexibility and simplicity to
create high-quality photos. Together, these six companies will
continue to advocate industry adoption of this new standard,
which is expected to spur the growth of digital photography.
The features supported by
a DPS system according to the recommended specifications include
printing an image displayed on the digital still camera, printing
two or more images selected from the display on the digital still
camera, automatically printing images using the Digital Print
Order Format (DPOF) specification, a standard format control
file that is stored in the digital still camera's removable memory
card, which specifies which image files should be printed, as
well as the number of copies, printing an index of all images
and printing all images. "(keralamonitor.com)
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of Indian Foreest Service Examination 2002 Announced
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at the time of Interview. UPSC has a Facilitation Counter at
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from this counter. The result will also be available on the UPSC’s
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