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Rick RiznerCanon's $130 i475D Desktop Photo Printer is one of the least-expensive printers you'll find that has flash-memory slots and a control panel so you can print your pics without a PC. The printer reads CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, SD, and MultiMediaCard memory cards; and connecting via the i475D's USB 2.0 port, you can display the photos on your PC's monitor.Connecting a camera directly to a printer is not new, but until now the both camera and the printer had to be the same brand. The i475D incorporates the new PictBridge standard, developed by Canon, which allows any PictBridge- compatible camera to connect directly to the printer for instant prints. Epson and Hewlett-Packard told PC World that they will implement PictBridge soon, and according to Canon so will Fuji, Nikon, Olympus, and Sony. At 5.5 pages per minute, this model printed text relatively quickly for a photo printer (though it was no faster than an average all-purpose ink jet). It printed text crisply, too, with little of the random spray or loss of small detail that many ink jets produce. The i475D also printed gray- scale photos nicely on ordinary paper, with smooth shading and good detail. Canon provides superb documentation, including separate paper manuals for printing with and without a PC; one of the manuals provides the table of contents for the extensive on-screen manual.