Recently had a good question posed to me when grabbing my morning cup of coffee at my local Speedway, someone was looking for a good method to convert photos to digital, so I went digging for possible solutions without taking an arm and a leg. Found this device on amazon: Digital Film & Slide Scanner for only 79 bones and this one: Digital Film & Photo Scanner for 109 bones the benefit for either is the option to do film, and then the second has the capability to do 3 preset sizes of prints as well. Neither is bound to a printer that you would never want to operate.