how to print multiple 4x6's on 8.5X11 paper

[sekhar]

I was wondering if it was possible to print multiple photos on a single letter size sheet of canon photo paper pro.

The thing is that i have to print odd size photos for some speciality frames and I wanted to print a bunch of photos of different sizes on one sheet of paper and then cut them out as requried.

Does anyone know how to do this. I use photoshop 6.0 and the usual canon software for printing on windows XP. I am sure that it is possible to setup a new image in photoshop with the correct paper size and then cut and paste the images but I have not been been able to do this.

I use a canon i960 printer, when cropping a photo what ppi should i specify to get the correct printing dimensions ?

Thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Chandrasekhar

 

[Tuan Luong]

Have you check out QImage software?

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/

It is an excellent software to print multiple images on one sheet.

TL

 

[Doctor Bird]

Agreed.

Buy into QImage and you'll never regret it. Don't see how anyone can do without it.

Marq
http://www.pbase.com/marq

Have you check out QImage software?

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/

It is an excellent software to print multiple images on one sheet.

TL

--
MSChecan

 

[BillSteiner]

I was wondering if it was possible to print multiple photos on a
single letter size sheet of canon photo paper pro.
The thing is that i have to print odd size photos for some
speciality frames and I wanted to print a bunch of photos of
different sizes on one sheet of paper and then cut them out as
requried.
Does anyone know how to do this. I use photoshop 6.0 and the usual
canon software for printing on windows XP. I am sure that it is
possible to setup a new image in photoshop with the correct paper
size and then cut and paste the images but I have not been been
able to do this.

I use a canon i960 printer, when cropping a photo what ppi should i
specify to get the correct printing dimensions ?

Thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Chandrasekhar

Hi , I do it with Paint Shop Pro. Bill S.

 

[frank trotti]

Using EasyPhotoPrint software, select the 4 per page borderless option on letter sized paper...This will yield 4, 4.25X5.5" prints...not exactly 4x6, but for snapshots, quite acceptable....I've been doing this for a year now, and none of the dozens of recipients has complained...Frank

 

[Kris Kadela]

I was wondering if it was possible to print multiple photos on a
single letter size sheet of canon photo paper pro.
The thing is that i have to print odd size photos for some
speciality frames and I wanted to print a bunch of photos of
different sizes on one sheet of paper and then cut them out as
requried.
Does anyone know how to do this. I use photoshop 6.0 and the usual
canon software for printing on windows XP. I am sure that it is
possible to setup a new image in photoshop with the correct paper
size and then cut and paste the images but I have not been been
able to do this.

I use a canon i960 printer, when cropping a photo what ppi should i
specify to get the correct printing dimensions ?

Thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Chandrasekhar

WinXP has this capability built in

Go to the folder where the pictures are

right click on an image and choose Preview
Inthe preview window click onthe printer icon and follow the instaructions.

 

[UZi_Lovin_Hawaiian]

WinXP has this capability built in

Go to the folder where the pictures are

right click on an image and choose Preview
Inthe preview window click onthe printer icon and follow the
instaructions.

Good point Kris . . HOWEVER just a precaution, depending on what imaging software you have installed the Preview option in the operating system may actually open the image in that program (does this for me, selecting Preview opens Photoshop).

SO, selecting PRINT instead will get the dialog you want.

--
Gerald
aka. Uzi Lovin Hawaiian - Defender of Common Sense!
Honolulu, Hawaii

 

[Kris Kadela]

WinXP has this capability built in

Go to the folder where the pictures are

right click on an image and choose Preview
Inthe preview window click onthe printer icon and follow the
instaructions.

Good point Kris . . HOWEVER just a precaution, depending on what
imaging software you have installed the Preview option in the
operating system may actually open the image in that program (does
this for me, selecting Preview opens Photoshop).

SO, selecting PRINT instead will get the dialog you want.

--
Gerald
aka. Uzi Lovin Hawaiian - Defender of Common Sense!
Honolulu, Hawaii

Heh, in my case Preview always opens the Preview but double clicking opens with the default app and selectiing print off the right click menu just prints at the embeded size/dpi. I swear I have not touched any of the defaults (XP Pro).

 

[sekhar]

Thank you very much for all your help.

I will try out the techniques that you have suggested and let you know what happens. I hope there is a trail version of qimage that i could test out.

Does anyone know what is the ideal resolution for printing photos on the canon i960 printer. I am asking since i will have to resize some images after cropping in photoshop.

Regards.

I was wondering if it was possible to print multiple photos on a
single letter size sheet of canon photo paper pro.
The thing is that i have to print odd size photos for some
speciality frames and I wanted to print a bunch of photos of
different sizes on one sheet of paper and then cut them out as
requried.
Does anyone know how to do this. I use photoshop 6.0 and the usual
canon software for printing on windows XP. I am sure that it is
possible to setup a new image in photoshop with the correct paper
size and then cut and paste the images but I have not been been
able to do this.

I use a canon i960 printer, when cropping a photo what ppi should i
specify to get the correct printing dimensions ?

Thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Chandrasekhar

 

[Ron AKA]

Thank you very much for all your help.
I will try out the techniques that you have suggested and let you
know what happens. I hope there is a trail version of qimage that
i could test out.

Yes, it is a free download valid for 30 days. It is excellent software and if you take the time to learn how to use it, you will not regret. Does not work with Apple. See this link:

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/

Does anyone know what is the ideal resolution for printing photos
on the canon i960 printer. I am asking since i will have to resize
some images after cropping in photoshop.

That is one of the advantages of Qimage. You do not have to worry about this issue that most do not understand. When you crop in PS just remember to use the crop tool, set your height and width, but most important leave the resolution box blank. PS will save all the resolution that you have. Qimage will take that resolution and let the printer make the best use of it. The i960 requires 600 ppi input in best resolution mode, so Qimage takes what you have and interpolates to the 600 ppi.

Ron

 

[sekhar]

I downloaded it last night and played around with it for a little while.
I think that it is really usefull for doing what i wanted to do.

I do have issues with the whole UI, it just seems very non intuitive when it comes to using any of the advanced features. I finally just dragged and dropped my photos into the print page, set the layout for the photos and printed it to a file.

I will print it on my i960 today and check the output.

Is it really important to buy the ICC profiles from qImage, or, can i use the profile supplied by canon with the printer ?

Thanks
Chandrasekhar

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/

Does anyone know what is the ideal resolution for printing photos
on the canon i960 printer. I am asking since i will have to resize
some images after cropping in photoshop.

That is one of the advantages of Qimage. You do not have to worry
about this issue that most do not understand. When you crop in PS
just remember to use the crop tool, set your height and width, but
most important leave the resolution box blank. PS will save all the
resolution that you have. Qimage will take that resolution and let
the printer make the best use of it. The i960 requires 600 ppi
input in best resolution mode, so Qimage takes what you have and
interpolates to the 600 ppi.

Ron

 

[Richard W]

I downloaded it last night and played around with it for a little
while.
I think that it is really usefull for doing what i wanted to do.

It's well worth the invetsment - have been using it for about 3 years or so now, and it's often updated/improved - for free once registered.

I do have issues with the whole UI, it just seems very non
intuitive when it comes to using any of the advanced features.

Follow the Learn By Example steps in the Help file (not the PDF) to get up and running.

Many people find the GUI a little tricky to start with because they're conditioned to MS ways of doing things, and QImage is not designed to behave like a photo editor. It becomes second nature after a while to achieve complex things with a just couple of mouse clicks.

I
finally just dragged and dropped my photos into the print page, set
the layout for the photos and printed it to a file.

Several ways to do it, use what you find easiest.

I will print it on my i960 today and check the output.
Is it really important to buy the ICC profiles from qImage, or, can
i use the profile supplied by canon with the printer ?

You can use any profiles you want to - those supplied by Canon, those you make yourself, those bought from 3rd parties etc

Don't have the i960 but I think you may have 4 or 5 Canon profiles there depending on which paper you use.

Many Canon printers (and Epsons) until recently came with a rather 'jack of all trades, master of none' type of profile installed by default and uses for all OEM papers. Of late Canon seem to have introduced more paper specific profiles which in theory should give better results, but they don't document them well, if at all.

Be careful not to double profile (choosing ICM in driver and choosing the same profile in QImage) as this can give bizarre results.

I wouldn't rush to buy a profile yet - play with what you have first. Remember any profiles you buy make will be specific for that specific paper/printer/ink combination.

RW

 

[Fred Phillips]

Ron

Since you opened this subject would you provide a little more clarification re this cropping thing as it is used in PS. I have PS 7. I've always wondered exactly how it worked. First of all experts (whoever they are) always say dont click on "resample" when changing image size if at all possible. Then along comes the cropping tool which, after asking you to select a desired image size in inches of width and height, asks you to select a resolution, i.e. no. of dpi, irrespective of the no. of pixels the image file may have. That being the case, the cropping tool must be resampling to provide the requested no. of dpi. in cases where the image file doesn't have enough pixels to begin with. If this is so what is actually happening if you leave the resolution box blank and leave it up tp PS.

Many thanks for you insights on this.

Fred

Thank you very much for all your help.
I will try out the techniques that you have suggested and let you
know what happens. I hope there is a trail version of qimage that
i could test out.

Yes, it is a free download valid for 30 days. It is excellent
software and if you take the time to learn how to use it, you will
not regret. Does not work with Apple. See this link:

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/

Does anyone know what is the ideal resolution for printing photos
on the canon i960 printer. I am asking since i will have to resize
some images after cropping in photoshop.

That is one of the advantages of Qimage. You do not have to worry
about this issue that most do not understand. When you crop in PS
just remember to use the crop tool, set your height and width, but
most important leave the resolution box blank. PS will save all the
resolution that you have. Qimage will take that resolution and let
the printer make the best use of it. The i960 requires 600 ppi
input in best resolution mode, so Qimage takes what you have and
interpolates to the 600 ppi.

Ron

 

[spanky181896]

Use easy photo print, it comes on the canon discs, you can set how many pics on eachh A4, you can also crop and trim them so there are no borders (or you can have borders if you want them.

The only difficult thing with this program is you have no control over the printer driver, it selects thesettings it thinks you'll need for best quality.

Also, you can only select canon paper types and sizes. So if your 3rd partypaper needs a 'Non-canon' setting/size, you're out of luck!

hope it helps
spanky

 

[Ron AKA]

Hi Fred, some comments below:

Ron

Since you opened this subject would you provide a little more
clarification re this cropping thing as it is used in PS. I have
PS 7. I've always wondered exactly how it worked. First of all
experts (whoever they are) always say dont click on "resample" when
changing image size if at all possible.

Yes, this is good advice and that is what I did when I first started using PS. I went through a convoluted process to resize images, figuring out what the real resolution was, writing it down, and then going and using the crop tool and setting the resolution to what I wrote down. Very time consuming. And, further if you did not crop full length in one dimension this resolution would actually be incorrect and it forced PS to resample in any case. Then someone at this site gave me the very valuable tip of directly using the crop tool. I wish I could remember who it was, as it sure has saved me a lot of time (and quality loss). More below.

Then along comes the

cropping tool which, after asking you to select a desired image
size in inches of width and height, asks you to select a
resolution, i.e. no. of dpi, irrespective of the no. of pixels the
image file may have. That being the case, the cropping tool must
be resampling to provide the requested no. of dpi. in cases where
the image file doesn't have enough pixels to begin with.

Exactly and that was what I was doing.

If this

is so what is actually happening if you leave the resolution box
blank and leave it up tp PS.

Now I always save the original image as it comes from the camera and never resize it. When I do a print the first thing I do is the crop. When you leave the resolution box empty, all PS does is count the number of pixels of data you have inside the crop box and divide it by the dimensions you set and PS just displays the resulting resolution. No re-sampling is done to the image. PS just tells you what you have. Elequent, fast, simple, and not entirely obvious!

I thought PS was about the dumbest program going until I was given this tip.

This said, the resolution you get will be some odd number, probably with decimal places. This really bothers the crowd that believes in the magic resolution theory (240, 300, 360 or whatever). They just itch to convert that odd number to one of these magic numbers. I don't, I just let Qimage do the right thing (depending on what printer I use and quality setting), at the time of printing. This saves disk space and avoids unecessary re-sampling.

Hope that makes sense and helps? If not let me know.

Ron

 

[Ron AKA]

I do have issues with the whole UI, it just seems very non
intuitive when it comes to using any of the advanced features.

You are right the UI is .... lets say .... interesting!! Tricia at this site gives very good advice. A while back I saved a couple of posts which I think originate with Tricia. Very good for getting started with Qimage. Here they are:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1003&message=5393466

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1003&message=5393498

Ron

 

[R. Bond]

I was wondering if it was possible to print multiple photos on a
single letter size sheet of canon photo paper pro.
The thing is that i have to print odd size photos for some
speciality frames and I wanted to print a bunch of photos of
different sizes on one sheet of paper and then cut them out as
requried.
Does anyone know how to do this. I use photoshop 6.0 and the usual
canon software for printing on windows XP. I am sure that it is
possible to setup a new image in photoshop with the correct paper
size and then cut and paste the images but I have not been been
able to do this.

I use a canon i960 printer, when cropping a photo what ppi should i
specify to get the correct printing dimensions ?

Thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Chandrasekhar

--
http://www.pbase.com/rebond

 

[Tim O]

I was wondering if it was possible to print multiple photos on a
single letter size sheet of canon photo paper pro.

Here's a "strange" method I've been using for about four months...

(1) Using my favorite word processor I set up a mixture of pictures and text on a single page sized at 8x10 inches. Anything goes that the word processor is capable of.

(2) Double click on "My Computer" (I'm using Windows98) and double click on "Printers". Right click on your usual inkjet printer and click on "Pause printing".

(3) In the word processor I print my single page to the paused printer. I make sure the graphics resolution in the printer driver is set to 300DPI. The word processor rasterizes the entire page and writes an "Enhanced Windows MetaFile", also known as EMF format. Because the printer is paused the output is stored in the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP directory as a file named something like emf1234.tmp.

(4) Start the freeware program IrfanView and tell it to open the emf1234.tmp file. EMF is one of the many formats it supports. You now have a 2400x3000 pixel image in Irfanview that you simply save as a TIFF or JPEG.

(5) Print this TIFF or JPEG using your normal method, or take it to Sam's Club and print an 8x10 on their equipment.

(6) Clear out the emf1234.tmp file by selecting the "Purge Print Documents" option under MyComputer/Printers/usual-printer so it doesn't actually print directly from your word processor.

Tim

 

[UZi_Lovin_Hawaiian]

Whoah . . you really should try out Qimage . .

Incidentally . . Why would one want to have a lab print multiple 4x6 images on larger paper only to have to manually cut them not to mention pay more for the larger format? I'm thinking your intent was just to illustrate that the files could be used for a variety of things and that you weren't actually suggesting using that method to produce 4x6's at a lab. Then again, I could be missing something . .

I was wondering if it was possible to print multiple photos on a
single letter size sheet of canon photo paper pro.

Here's a "strange" method I've been using for about four months...

(1) Using my favorite word processor I set up a mixture of pictures
and text on a single page sized at 8x10 inches. Anything goes that
the word processor is capable of.
(2) Double click on "My Computer" (I'm using Windows98) and double
click on "Printers". Right click on your usual inkjet printer and
click on "Pause printing".
(3) In the word processor I print my single page to the paused
printer. I make sure the graphics resolution in the printer driver
is set to 300DPI. The word processor rasterizes the entire page and
writes an "Enhanced Windows MetaFile", also known as EMF format.
Because the printer is paused the output is stored in the
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP directory as a file named something like
emf1234.tmp.
(4) Start the freeware program IrfanView and tell it to open the emf1234.tmp file. EMF is one of the many formats it supports. You
now have a 2400x3000 pixel image in Irfanview that you simply save
as a TIFF or JPEG.
(5) Print this TIFF or JPEG using your normal method, or take it to
Sam's Club and print an 8x10 on their equipment.
(6) Clear out the emf1234.tmp file by selecting the "Purge Print
Documents" option under MyComputer/Printers/usual-printer so it
doesn't actually print directly from your word processor.

Tim

--
Gerald
aka. Uzi Lovin Hawaiian - Defender of Common Sense!
Honolulu, Hawaii

 

[spanky181896]

Still an interesting read! I don't know much about what happens to the data once it leaves the printing program, still nice to know you can openit if you wish
spanky