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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2006
Filed:
May. 18, 2001
John William Lumley, Bristol, GB;
John William Lumley, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for selection of pictures to print from a digital film, using a digital film enabled printer. The method comprises the steps of printing a selection sheet of thumbnail representations of photographs available on the digital film needed to be printed, the selection sheet further comprising a plurality of selection fields. According to a user choice of photograph to be printed, one or more of the selection fields associated with the thumbnails is marked and the marked selection sheet feed back into the printer. The printer includes a scanning mechanism which is arranged to read the marked up sheet and, in accordance with the user choice, print one or more photographs from the digital media in accordance with the marked selection fields.