Printing 2-up from Photo Booth?

For my son's birthday I want his guests to make little passports and go through the house visiting destinations to get them stamped, etc.

I thought Photo Booth would be the perfect app for taking the photos, except that I can't figure out how to tell it to print 2-up or n-up on a 4x6 photo paper page. If I click a picture in the Photo Booth photo list, it dutifully prints nearly a passport-photo-sized image, but there is no way to select more than one photo. Printing 2 copies just prints one copy each on two sheets of photo paper.

Obviously I only need one photo per kid for the little passports, but it pains me to waste 90% of a piece of photo paper. Even if I could print 2-up of the same photo then I'd at least have an extra in case they screw up when cutting or pasting into the passport booklet.

The long way would be to import them into iPhoto, but that would truly suck and would take a lot of the fun out of the experience.

Is there a way to control Photo Booth's printing with any more options? I'd even like to increase the default print size a bit (currently 2.0" x 1.5").

The plist doesn't show anything obvious:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>AutoFlipPhoto</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>Compositions</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>LastEffectIndex</key>
<integer>5</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>LastEffectIndex</key>
<integer>6</integer>
</dict>
</array>
<key>LastComposition</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>NSDisabledCharacterPaletteMenuItem</key>
<true/>
<key>NSWindow Frame PhotoBoothMainWindow</key>
<string>187 50 650 686 0 0 1024 746 </string>
</dict>
</plist>

various, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 26, 2006 7:24 AM

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Oct 26, 2006 1:38 PM in response to stevenkan

hi stevenkan,

I have checked out my Photobooth.


It obviously gives you a Page setup option and when a Picture is selected it give the Print item as well

With my Epsom CX3600 the Print item then opens a dialogue box to the Printer.

It gives a view of two drop downs with some button options under this.
However next to the top drop down is a downward arrow that will reveal the options (for me anyway)

Now I can choose the number of pages and have another drop down labeled Photobooth that shows a set of pic views underneath.
1) is a space labeled Standard.
2) seems to show different size pics
3) appears to be several passports of the same pic
4) seems to be that pic followed by the next few.

Is this what you mean ?

I don't have a 6x4 option in the Page setup or in the other options of Print.

EDIT Yes I do on the last once I had re-established the Printer choice. Epsom CX3600 does have 6x4



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9:37 PM Thursday; October 26, 2006

Oct 27, 2006 3:11 AM in response to stevenkan

Hi,

This is actually on a MacBook Pro.

Screen shot coming to here soon.

EDIT: Posted. I have also included a shot of the preview of the next one over. The others are like strips from a actual Photobooth where you get the same pic four times or 4 different ones.

Hope it helps.

I will also check if my other printer does the same options. (it's an older Epsom 740)

EDIT 2 yes it does.


User uploaded file

11:05 AM Friday; October 27, 2006

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