Problems printing with Photoshop CS

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May 23, 2004
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Hi guys,
First of all, hello to all, I am new to the group. Here’s my problem:

I have designed an advert that I need printed on my Laser printer. 4 on an A4 paper. Is there a way to tell photoshop "print it such a size that u put 4 per page" ? I am trying so far to print it a quarter size on the top right, then on the top left…. But when I print with this page setup (A3), it doesn’t print, the printer doesnt react… It works fine with any other page setups. Any clues?
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Mike Russell
Jun 1, 2004
markz wrote:
Hi guys,
First of all, hello to all, I am new to the group. Here’s my problem:

I have designed an advert that I need printed on my Laser printer. 4 on an A4 paper. Is there a way to tell photoshop "print it such a size that u put 4 per page" ? I am trying so far to print it a quarter size on the top right, then on the top left…. But when I print with this page setup (A3), it doesn’t print, the printer doesnt react… It works fine with any other page setups. Any clues? markzzz

Make a new document that matches your paper size, drag some guides to divide it into 4 sections, and then copy and paste your advert to the new document, using Free Transform to get the size and alignment right. Repeat for each copy.

There may be a way to accomplish this via the printer driver – for example the old LW’s on Macontish could do this – which OS and what is the model of printer you are using?
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Fred Athearn
Jun 3, 2004
If you are doing a lot of this and have CS there is a tool at file>automate>picture package that could be set up to do it. Pick or create a package template that matches your printable area, divide it into four, and then make or crop your image or images match the size those spaces.

If the image is already open as soon as you start picture package is will set it up. Then just say OK, a program will run, and you will get a new image matching the current template that can be saved and printed.

The automate>picture package will also let you do things like print out pages with a mix of different size prints like one big and several small.

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:00:04 GMT, "Mike Russell" wrote:

markz wrote:
Hi guys,
First of all, hello to all, I am new to the group. Here’s my problem:

I have designed an advert that I need printed on my Laser printer. 4 on an A4 paper. Is there a way to tell photoshop "print it such a size that u put 4 per page" ? I am trying so far to print it a quarter size on the top right, then on the top left…. But when I print with this page setup (A3), it doesn’t print, the printer doesnt react… It works fine with any other page setups. Any clues? markzzz

Make a new document that matches your paper size, drag some guides to divide it into 4 sections, and then copy and paste your advert to the new document, using Free Transform to get the size and alignment right. Repeat for each copy.

There may be a way to accomplish this via the printer driver – for example the old LW’s on Macontish could do this – which OS and what is the model of printer you are using?

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