These are : ·The printing width differs amongst printers. Normally width is either 8.5" or 13". The highest quality printers will allow you to go larger but at a much higher per print cost. ·If you want to print really great looking black-and-white images, then printer needs to have grey inks as well. So, an 8-color printer would be best suited for this purpose. ·Whether your printer has separate ink tanks for each color or does it have multiple inks in each cartridge. If you have multiple inks, then you have to replace entire cartridge even if one color finishes. Hence, it is more expensive to replace such cartridges and you waste a lot of ink as well. ·The ability of printer to print directly from your camera or a memory card through a link. ·The printing speed per minute. This can go up to 10 minutes for a colored snap, so you must properly check this out depending upon our usage.

Multi use printers are great for a busy office or household but if you want to make fine prints out of your digital images you should invest in a dedicated digital camera printer or digital photo printer. Look for models that will take most popular memory cards straight into printer without having to load images into your computer.

It is also necessary to remember that even though you might gift your child a digital camera to click photographs for school projects, they will be using it to take pictures of their friends. So, look for some ‘fun’ features in digital camera. These can include colorful background images or sound effects, photographic effects that they can use to enhance images taken by them.

One more thing is ease of use. It is important that camera has a simple system through which children can easily take pictures quickly. However, you really do not need to worry about this aspect a lot because today’s children have been born in digital era. They are able to pick up things much faster than you or me, so as long as camera is good in all other aspects, even if its ‘click ability’ is a little confusing, it does not really matter. They are fast learners these days!

Last but not least, is price. While buying a digital camera for your child, it is understandable that you really do not want to spend a lot of money. There are lots of choices available in market today. The price range starts from as low as $30 and can go up to $300. So, it really depends on how much you would like to spend on camera. Start simple and upgrade if they grow out of digital camera that you buy for them. Hey share them with whole family!