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Abstract

In an electronic camera responsive to a digital image stored in such camera and having a microfluidic printer for printing images onto a receiver to form continuous tone color pixels corresponding to the stored digital image, including focusing an image of a subject at an image plane; area image sensor disposed at the image plane for receiving the image subject and producing a digital image representing the subject; and digital storage coupled to the area image sensor for storing the digitized image of the subject. The microfluidic printer including a plurality ol colorant reservoirs including reservoirs for containing cyan, magenta, and yellow colorants, respectively, and a plurality of colorant delivery chambers, including a fourth reservoir containing a colorant modifying fluid wherein the colorant modifying fluid includes a particular scent; selectable mode control circuit responsive to the digital image for causing colorants to be delivered from colorant reservoirs to selected colorant delivery chambers in the correct amount and for delivering the colorant modifying fluid containing the particular scent from the fourth reservoir to selected delivery chambers; and the printer causing the transfer of the colorants with the selected colorant modifying fluid in the delivery chamber to the receiver to form a continuous tone color image having the desired scent.

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