80D direct print

Anybody set up their in camera processing and direct printed to a quality printer. Did it give good results?

Just one guy's opinion, but I don't think anyone, anywhere, has ever done that, ever.

Was not going to hang print in galleries. According to your thought why then would the printer companies put direct print features on their top of line printers?

filmuser wrote in post #18120968
Was not going to hang print in galleries. According to your thought why then would the printer companies put direct print features on their top of line printers?

Beats me. I have no clue why any camera, or any home printer, has such a feature. I can't imagine anyone using it. My first action with any photo is to put it on my computer. I want to view it a bit larger than 3"x2". If it is OOF, it gets binned. For the ones I keep, I may adjust crop, exposure, curves, saturation, any one of the color channels in any of three ways, luma and chroma noise if shooting raw/high ISO. None of that can be done when going from in-camera JPG to printer.

Add to that the fact than I can get prints cheaper, and of higher quality (most home printers), from Walmart than I can get at home. And if I don't like the output, I don't pay for the photo. (Or they'll print it again, FREE! Try that at home.) Nope, I don't see the use for a camera or a printer that can do direct printing. I'd rather my camera have a mini Keurig brewing station on it. Or at least a beer dispenser. Either would get more use than a direct print button.

I have set up my previous bodies to print to a canon selphy printer. Basically during a party, my camera became a Polaroid, where I printed some photos for the folks before they left. The camera setup was easy, the printer was slow though. I still have it though.

I've used that feature when I was shooting portraits at a corporate event. I didn't have a laptop that I could bring to tether. And they wanted prints. I actually lugged my Pro9000, which printed fairly quickly, but after a while the ink wasn't coming out dark enough. Maybe the printer overheated?

I was using a 40D and the prints were good (using Canon ink and paper). It didn't occur to me to bring a white background instead of black to save ink! I eventually ran out.

When I want a good print for display I give it the full monty in lightroom. I do not need that much quality in a print to shove in a photo album. If someone wants a print they see in my album I will pull up the file into lightroom and work its magic. Using a pro100 and thinking of a imagePROGRAF PRO-1000.

Direct print is useful during those Polaroid moments, just a bit more clumsy than a Polaroid camera though.