Contact sheet only shows single image; need multiple duplicates

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Contact sheet only shows single image; need multiple duplicates

I'm trying to print an image using the "Contact Sheet" setting. I need to output a page containing multiple instances of one single image. When I select the image and select "Contact Sheet," it shrinks the single image down and sticks it in the top-left box of what should be a page full of that single image ... but it's only creating a single instance of the image, and the rest of the blocks on the contact sheet are blank.

I'm ready to put my fist through the monitor. Please help before it's too late. Thanks.

iMac 20" Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 30GB iPod; 512MB iPod Shuffle; 30GB iPod Video, 1GB iPod Shuffle (RED)

Posted on May 11, 2009 12:02 PM

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LarryHN

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May 11, 2009 2:50 PM in response to Jon Zahlaway

Select the photo, click print, select the printer, paper size and print size, click customize, in settings (the gear at the bottom) select multiple copies of a photo -the preview will display what is gong to print - and click print - set any printer specific settings and print

you are still trying to make a contact sheet - note that my instructions are for printing multiple copies of a single photo in the desired size -- a contact sheet does NOT have multiple copies of a single photo on it

Do not select contact sheet

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LarryHN

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May 11, 2009 12:22 PM in response to Jon Zahlaway

By definition a contact sheet contains one and only one print of each selected photo

a piece of photographic paper onto which several or all of the negatives on a roll of film have been contact printed.

If you want something different - multiple copies of a single photo then you need to do that

Select the photo, click print, select the printer, paper size and print size, click customize, in settings (the gear at the bottom) select multiple copies of a photo -the preview will display what is gong to print - and click print - set any printer specific settings and print

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LarryHN

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May 11, 2009 12:46 PM in response to Jon Zahlaway

In the customize window when you click the settings icon ther is a pull down menu in teh resulting screen that lets you select multiple photos pre page and multiples of a photo

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Jon Zahlaway Author

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May 11, 2009 12:32 PM in response to LarryHN

{quote:title=LarryHN wrote:}... in settings (the gear at the bottom) select multiple copies of a photo -the preview will display what is gong to print - and click print{quote}

Yeah, you would think ... but the only thing that comes up when I click "Settings" is a box containing settings solely for selecting and formatting the "Photo Info" text that can be printed with the image. There are no other settings available, to include nothing by which I can select multiple instances of the single image.

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Jon Zahlaway Author

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May 11, 2009 12:59 PM in response to LarryHN

{quote:title=LarryHN wrote:}
In the customize window when you click the settings icon ther is a pull down menu in teh resulting screen that lets you select multiple photos pre page and multiples of a photo{quote}

Oh, how I do so wish that were the case, but when I click "Customize" and then get to the subsequent screen containing the "Settings" button, and then click said "Settings" button, I get, as previously stated, nothing but a dropdown that allows me to changes settings only for the text that one can select to accompany one's image, as shown in the screen capture found here:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1009048/iphoto-customize-settings.jpg

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