Standards group for cellphone photoprinting

CNET reports that Hewlett-Packard, Epson, and Canon have joined forces to form a group that will promote standards for printing photos snapped with camera phones (or "the increasingly popular gadget known as the camera phone," as the article entertainingly puts it).

Through the Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium, announced Thursday, the three printer companies plan to implement guidelines for the mobile phone industry to deliver reliable wireless printing options to consumers by the second half of 2004. Existing connectivity standards will be used, the companies said, including Bluetooth wireless technology, printing from memory cards and PictBridge, a wired technology for linking digital still cameras directly to printers.

Printer firms focus on camera phones | CNET News.com