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Topic: Printing, Printing without a driver

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Thinman

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Posted: May 14 2006,20:09

If you have a camera or a smartmedia card your dsl can talk to then just save your print job as a jpg picture file. This can be done using xpaint by going to: file,snapshot then draw a border around the part to print and save it as a jpg.
transfer it to a smart media card and put the card in a printer that can read smart media cards and print the picture file directly from the printer itself. Many cameras can be use as a smart card reader and are detected by the usb subsystem. Jpeg pictures can usualy be saved directly to the card.

kerry

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Posted: May 15 2006,01:13

interesting

jpeters

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Posted: May 15 2006,08:57

Brilliant idea! On a similar note, you can save anything as a JPG file to a USB storage device, and then print from another computer; nice way to cross OS platforms/networks.

pr0f3550r

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Posted: May 15 2006,16:01

If your camera has flash memory why not just boot DSL from the camera itself?

...just joking..

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Thinman

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Posted: May 16 2006,22:24

I was thinking this should be in the tips and tricks maybe?

I can print on a fancy Canon Pixma MP800 that my wife has hooked up to the laptop downstairs with this technique. I have even seen some floppy to smartmedia adapters advertised. That sounds like it could work as well.

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