But, for smaller papers, with smaller financial reserve, they can be used for many types of pictures - if not, all. Amateur digital cameras are used in many other business situations too. We already mentioned the use by real-estate brokers . As we said in the overview, a broker can send digital picture of potential homes to a client thousands of miles away in a matter of seconds. Or they can print the pictures using one of the output devices we discuss in a later lesson, and assemble the prints in an album for the client.
Many companies take digital pictures of their employees for printing on their security badges.
Some banks take digital pictures of their customers for printing on their Visa and MasterCard credit cards . One advantage of digitizing these pictures is that they can be cross-referenced in the computer and retrieved by category when needed. As you can see from this short list, there are already many areas in which digital cameras are useful. As you can also see, these uses have some common threads. The pictures can be viewed quickly.