1. A hand-held digital camera device comprising: a programmable processing circuitry incorporating a four-way parallel VLIW vector processor; an image sensor interface connected to the programmable processing circuitry and configured to receive signals from an image sensor and pass data representing the signals to the programmable processing circuitry; and a printhead interface connected to the programmable processing circuitry and configured to receive the data from the programmable processing circuitry and generate control signals to be received by a printhead of a printing mechanism, wherein the programmable processing circuitry, the image sensor interface and the printhead interface all form part of CMOS integrated circuitry provided on a common wafer, and an instruction set of the four-way parallel VLIW vector processor contains instructions tuned for image manipulation processing.