Printing contact sheets

[MattPritch]

Hi,

I'am having problems printing contact sheets on Photoshop CS,

I am printing on an HP 7410 All in one,

Here is the problem, i need to print 6 photos on 1 sheet of paper and once this is selected to print the printer only prints half of the top 2 photos,

I have tried reducing the resolution and therefore the size of the file and it seems to make a difference becasue the printer will then get half way through the second row of photos, but i have tried printing a single photo in high resolution and that prints perfectly so i have come to the conclusion that it cant be a size problem.

Any ideas??

 

[jmgalvin]

What size did you make the contact sheet and what size papaer do you set in your page setup for the printer? If things are bigger than your paper, including required printer margins, things can go bad.

Often HP drivers have the aboility to scale to printer margins. When yu get your print window, you might look thorugh the various settings for this feature.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[MattPritch]

I set my paper as normal standard A4 210x297 and i dont change any of the settings when i create the contact sheet.

Sometimes it comes up with the error that the image is too big for the paper and clipping will take place and the printing problems arise, but i have decreased the size of the images so that they have a white gap around the edges and the error goes but the problem still arises.

 

[Design1]

by decreasing the size of the image you mean changing the image size itself, or the dpi?

problems may occur when trying to print contact sheets, and albeit the image looks small, the dpi puts it way over the printing limit.

Try sample down to 72dpi (monitor size) but not larger than 300dpi, and thats pixels per cm, not inch

worth a try.

Design1

 

[anesone]

I have Photoshop 7.01 - not CS - don't know the differences, but at File - Automate - Contact Sheet II it allows you to specify the document (not the photo - the paper you're printing on)size. I specify 8.5x11. Then it asks how many columns, rows and the number of objects in each. I also check the box for "Flatten All Layers."

Then in Print Preview I select File - Print with Preview then check the box "Scale to fit Media."

Hope CS has these features