My 'Print Button' solution for Canon

Everyone (correctly) rips on the print button. I'm sure it's just Canons way of enticing Canon owners into buying their printer. After all, they are 'compatible' right? We also all know that they probably make more money on the ink cartridges than the printers. So why not just ditch the button on the SLR's and give a sizable printer rebate/coupon when you buy a Camera? Then they still get the ink sales and respect for ditching the button ?

Whatcha think

good idea...*-)

It's funny that you posted this because I was looking at my camera today and wondering if there is a single person in the history of the world that has ever even thought about using this button!

Rick Anderson wrote in post #4138279
It's funny that you posted this because I was looking at my camera today and wondering if there is a single person in the history of the world that has ever even thought about using this button!

I could see a person with a P&S using it. (someone that isn't going to do much if any post processing). Just not the DSL crowd.

Reefbone wrote in post #4138224
Everyone (correctly) rips on the print button. I'm sure it's just Canons way of enticing Canon owners into buying their printer. After all, they are 'compatible' right? We also all know that they probably make more money on the ink cartridges than the printers. So why not just ditch the button on the SLR's and give a sizable printer rebate/coupon when you buy a Camera? Then they still get the ink sales and respect for ditching the button ?

Whatcha think

I've had somewhat the same response (I don't need the print button, so why is it taking up real estate?), but then, looking at it another way, I could ask "when would this print function actually be valuable?"

I can think of a few settings in which a camera and a small portable printer could fill a real purpose. Think a wedding, an event, a kids' soccer game, a family gathering, or any situation where you are taking pictures where you don't have the convenience of using a laptop but would be around people and taking pictures of people or, say, in a scene involving other people who may have a desire to see and have a 4x6 of their own.

So, you have a small battery operated printer that could sit on the kitchen sink or a coffee table or whatever, and you can plug the camera into the printer and use the camera's big, nice LCD to pick and print what you want.

I didn't work for Canon, but did work for HP's printer division, and that was a niche that these little portables was meant to fill, and Canon's PictBridge is a valid approach to that.

So, we don't use the button ourselves, but they still have some purpose. Maybe if we could have a Custom Function to define another use for it, or they could make it a double-duty button like a lot of others are.

Tony
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Several Canon cameras, too many lenses and stuff to list
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No Joke! I know someone who had a 5D and was shooting her Mothers B'day party and Had a little Printer with her and she was printing directly from the camera, Well to make a long story short, She fried her 5D!!!! She was lucky that it was covered under the warranty..

Moral of the story, I don't connect any USB cables to any of my cameras. Never have and never will...

I work in a neonatal intensive care ward.

We have a Canon P&S (don't ask me the model!) and a little photo printer. We take photos of the babies when they are admitted to give to their parents - often mum is sick as well and can't come down to look at her baby.

Sometimes if the outcome isn't good, it is the only photo of their babies while they are alive. Pretty handy given the circumstances.

EDIT: just realised you were talking about the DSLR's. Still, I'm sure the photos I get could be better with my 20D and 50mm 1.8. I'll have to try it!

There may be a few people that use the function but in my opinion and from what I see and read, it is one of the most useless functions and buttons on Canon's DSLR's. If nothing else they should have just made it an assignable soft button through software.

For whatever reason they continue to implement that button and don't seem to care that no one uses it.

I would be very curious to know what percentage of Canon DSLR owners actually use the function.

Rick Anderson wrote in post #4138279
It's funny that you posted this because I was looking at my camera today and wondering if there is a single person in the history of the world that has ever even thought about using this button!

I'd say the answer to that is an unequivocal "YES!".

Probably everyone, even!

And promptly dissed it!



What a pointless fixed-use button to have on that level of camera! At least follow the sort of thing the G series has, i.e. make it a toggle/shortcut function switch.

Reefbone,
I personally would rather have the button be able to be changed in the camera instead of a printer rebate. As I already have a Canon printer (more then one actually).

John_B wrote in post #4139658
Reefbone,
I personally would rather have the button be able to be changed in the camera instead of a printer rebate. As I already have a Canon printer (more then one actually).

I agree. Unless my memory fails me, with my A570IS I can re-configure the printer button to do something else just like we can do with the * on the 400D.

I have printed from my SD750IS to my 4x6 printer before, but still no need for the button

The button is pointless IMO since you just go to the menu and achieve the same thing.

Agreed. Needs to be user-configurable to something more useful. I'd bet more people would use a condom machine in the Vatican than the print button on a 1D....

No Joke! I know someone who had a 5D and was shooting her Mothers B'day party and Had a little Printer with her and she was printing directly from the camera, Well to make a long story short, She fried her 5D!!!! She was lucky that it was covered under the warranty..

Moral of the story, I don't connect any USB cables to any of my cameras. Never have and never will...

ItsMike wrote in post #4139205
No Joke! I know someone who had a 5D and was shooting her Mothers B'day party and Had a little Printer with her and she was printing directly from the camera, Well to make a long story short, She fried her 5D!!!! She was lucky that it was covered under the warranty..

Moral of the story, I don't connect any USB cables to any of my cameras. Never have and never will...

ItsMike wrote in post #4141657
No Joke! I know someone who had a 5D and was shooting her Mothers B'day party and Had a little Printer with her and she was printing directly from the camera, Well to make a long story short, She fried her 5D!!!! She was lucky that it was covered under the warranty..

Moral of the story, I don't connect any USB cables to any of my cameras. Never have and never will...

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