Patent ID: 7038714

Claim:
A digital photography system comprising: a digital camera for capturing images and a digital printer for producing hardcopy prints; the camera including: an image sensor for capturing images; a memory for storing a plurality of the captured images; an image display for displaying the stored images; and the printer including; a marking apparatus adapted to provide the images on a print; a firmware memory which is adapted to be customized to store a user selected default printer setting; user controls for controlling the printer and for selecting a preferred printer setting, wherein the preferred printer setting for the particular user is stored as the user-selected default setting in the firmware memory and wherein the default printer setting is displayed on the image display and used by the electronic printer unless the user overrides the default printer setting; and an electrical interface for controlling, from the printer, the images displayed on the display of the camera, for selecting an image to be printed from the plurality of digital images stored in the memory of the camera, and for transferring the selected image from the camera to the printer.