Printer utility program

[dewaltdisney]

I have recently smashed my Kodak printer to pieces as it was a load of shite (it was most enjoyable but a pain clearing up the crap after ). I was hooked by the cheap Kodak cartridge selling point that turned out to be expensive as they lasted half as long as HP and could not be refilled as a little code strip on the cart prevented the printer using refills. The print quality was awful. That said the Kodak printer utility program you loaded on your PC was actually quite good and I am missing having this with the cheapo HP 1514 printer I have bought to replace it.

I was trying to print some pictures four up on an A4 yesterday. I just could not do it as the Windows print process did not seem to have a way of assembling four photos to print on one sheet of A4. Can anyone recommend a simple download to help me with very basic printing issues like this. All the ones I see are for creating place mats and sh*t.

Many thanks

DWD

[kellys_eye]

Windows photo viewer has a print option and allows you to fit 4 onto a sheet of A4.

If it's four IDENTICAL pictures you want then I suspect you'll have to copy/paste four identical pics into your folder and select them individually.

[Dave54]

If you want something with a bit more control than the Windows photo viewer, you could try IrfanView (free for non commercial use)
http://www.irfanview.com/
Click "View thumbnails" under "File", then in the new window that opens select the files you want to print. Click "File > Create contact sheet from selected files" and then set the parameters you want in the box that opens. Then print from the new preview window.

[Bob225]

its simple to get photo viewer to do multi pics on a page - go to your pictures press and hold ctrl or shift and select the images - right click - print - select the layout you require

there are lots of basic programs that let you do layouts

Have a look on the cd you got with the printer there are usually apps on the disc or download them from there site
http://www.hp.com/global/uk/en/consumer ... tions.html

tbh HP's retail/consumer printers are usually good and the included software is very usable

[dewaltdisney]

Thanks for the suggestions which I have been having a look at.

Kelly, Windows Photo Viewer is not on my PC which runs Vista. For Vista they replaced it with the Photo Gallery which is what I have been having trouble trying to multi print from.

Flash, I have an HP photo utility on my PC already but I must have corrupted it as it does not seems to work properly and keeps looking for missing components. I had seen that HP Creations software but it did not actually say that it did what I wanted in the blurb and I was reluctant to download it but I will see what I can find out about it.

Dave, the Irfanviewer looks as though it will do the trick but I am a bit wary of Freeware like this as I have trust issues I guess.

I will carry on checking it out.

Cheers all

DWD

[Bob225]

just downloaded the HP software it does what hp call multi up prints (multi images on 1 page)

[dewaltdisney]

Thanks Flash, I will go with that then.

Cheers

DWD