Efficiently print many images (9 to a page?)

I have a large number (500ish) of small jpeg images that I’d like to be able to print out, 9 to a page. All the images are the same size.

I’m really hoping that I won’t have to manually add the images to a document in some manner, since that would take a really long time. I am vaguely familiar with ImageMagick, but I couldn’t figure out a good way to say “tile all the images in a directory, 9 to a page”.

I have Windows XP, Mac OS 10.4, and Ubuntu at my disposal, but the Mac is my machine of choice.

Thanks in advance for any help.

If you have access to Adobe Photoshop or InDesign, you may create a contact sheet. The only issue I’ve found is that the computer sometimes takes a long period of time to chew through a lot of images; it might be best to choose subfolders with x images each for x/9 sheets at a time - I stick to 4 or 5 sheets at a time on the computer at work. Um, YMMV. I think.

Try GraphicConverter for the Mac (shareware). Down at the bottom of the file menu is “Catalog” which will do what you want.

Hmm. I think I have an old version of Photoshop around somewhere. That process looks like it still might take a long time, though. It sounds like I might have to select the images for each page (or create 50ish directories, each with 9 images). Is there a way to script it so that it’ll do the same thing for all the images?

I think Photoshop will make multiple pages automatically… I just tried GraphicConverter, though, and it’s way faster.

I’m downloading Graphic Converter. So far, the download has halved in speed quite regularly. It’s been a perpetual 10 minutes away from completion. Zeno’s program.

If it’s just “X” images per page printing you want you don’t really need to go to the trouble of loading them into a document. The built in printing wizard in XP (and assumedly vista) allows you to tag as many files as you wish (then right click & choose print) and print them in 3-6-9 (9 is “wallet” prints) or whatever images per page setups of your choosing. Try it.

Ah, a good suggestion, except that I don’t actually have a printer. I’m outsourcing that job to Kinkos or someone.

Graphic Converter X does exactly what I want. Thanks a bunch.

Wow, I never knew you could do that. Thank you for this!!!