Originally posted by Flood
Can the printer be connected directly to the computer – I don’t know the model, but some one might.
That would be easier, yes?

Flood.

Yes if you are a normal human being, no if you are my wife! As I mentioned before, she does not want to get involved with the computer.

Originally posted by GarryB
Getting back to the original topic wouldn’t it make more sense to buy a standalone DVD player (you can get them for less than $70 NZ here these days so you should be able to get them as cheap) and just save all of her photos to CD, so instead of spending money on paper and ink printing them all out she can look at them on your TV for the cost of about 50c per CD?
She could write down the ones she wants so you could put hundreds of photos on each CD and bore the relatives to tears with a small stack of CDs rather than lots of heavy photo albums…

Been there, got the badge…but it wasn’t enough, she wants to be able to print out those pictures from the CD I made a month or so ago. That’s why I had this problem.

I like the glass of water analogy!

The printer has a built in card reader for doing precisely what I am doing. Because of your experiences I am making sure I only use photos that haven’t been edited before returning the from storage on my hard disk to the card for printing.

The school should guide you through the required self study.

Ren my thoughts were that I already had a card reader/writer. It’s called the camera!

Perhaps I should explain the reason for my question. I bought my wife a Kodak digital camera with a 128mb MMC card for Christmas. I also bought her a HP2179 all in one printer/scanner. She hates using the computer so the idea is that she takes pictures on the camera and then transfers the card to the printer to print off her photos without having to go near the computer. She can do this fine but doesn’t understand why she can’t store thousands of pictures on the card. I download her pictures onto my PC and then save them on disc. What I needed to do was to be able to put them back on the MMC card so she can print them out again when she wants.

I chuckled because of the irony of the comment at the bottom that says the buyer pays the cost of shipping!

Had a go at using windows explorer and it worked a treat. I have only tried transferring uneditted pictures and will leave it that way! The reason I’m having to do this is a long story, suffice it to say that it is something to do with my technophobe wife being a pain in the butt!