# Want to print .jpg files folder at once, not worthy of GQ thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629 "2004-06-22T14:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/1 "2004-06-22T14:23:37Z")
I took about forty photos of a possibly illegal landfill yesterday. I want to print all the photos in one go because opening each one and then setting the printer settings for each one will take forever. It’s frustrating. I’m on number four and I’m already going nuts. Thank you for your time. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/2 "2004-06-22T14:29:24Z")
You can do a contact sheet in Photoshop if you have it. its in File\>automate\>contact sheet. It should do a single sheet to print with thumbnails on it, if thats any help. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/3 "2004-06-22T14:41:43Z")
Actually, that would be nice, but I don’t have Photoshop. I would still like to print a full page for each (I’m eliminating some redundant ones), but the thumbnails would be a nice addition. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/4 "2004-06-22T14:43:45Z")
I could paste them into one forty page Word document… ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/5 "2004-06-22T14:45:27Z")
Ah, sorry I can’t be of help then. I don’t really know about other graphics programs and that. I would assume you’re using MSpaint or photo editor or something along them lines. I’m sure other folk would know. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/6 "2004-06-22T15:45:03Z")
What program are you using to open them? When you say you have to set the print settings for each one, are you re-opening your viewer program for each photo? Can you instead just keep the application open (so that the printer settings stay the same) and open the files using File/Open? If you use keyboard shortcuts for both opening the files and printing, it shouldn’t take that long… ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/7 "2004-06-22T15:45:09Z")
Assuming you have XP: [ol][li]Open the folder with the pictures in it.[/li][li]Right-click on one of them and select Print.[/li][li]The Photo Printing Wizard pops up.[/li][li]Hit Next.[/li][li]A pane with thumbnails of all the photos in the directory appears.[/li][li]Put checks next to the ones you want to print.[/li][li]Hit Next.[/li][li]Set the options you want.[/li][li]Hit Print.[/li][/ol] This might work on Windows 2000 as well, but I’m not sure – I don’t have it handy in my house to see. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/8 "2004-06-22T15:49:16Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > I took about forty photos of a possibly illegal landfill yesterday. Worst. Hobby Ever. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/9 "2004-06-22T16:02:53Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > What program are you using to open them? I’ve got the MS Photo Editor and also that Kodak Imaging program that seems to be standard. When I have to reset the printer settings, I am baffled because I am keeping the application open. The color printer isn’t my printer and in the past it keeps the settings for both which printer and what options when I go from the same (continuously) open application. But not these. It’s a good printer, but it is tempermental (sp?). I pasted several on to a Word document and gave it a test run and let’s just say that I don’t think that’s going to work too well. **Bambi Hassenpfeffer** , that _almost_ works…maybe. When I click the “print” after right-clicking, what looks to be the MS Photo Editor pops up for a second or two and then it prints a black and white version to my printer—I don’t see a “next” nor any option to even make them landscape instead of portrait view. We need an “Eh, whadd’ya gonna do?” with shoulder-shrug smiley. **TwistofFate** , it sure beats my old hobby: Water color painting definately illegal landfills. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/10 "2004-06-22T16:16:40Z")
programmer geek here - I actually have a little home-built VB utility sitting around somewhere that will scan a folder full of images and create an ‘index’ web page file that links to all of them, in full size, with the filename printed under each. Very useful for seeing what you’ve got quickly. Might be able to open up an index page like that in internet explorer (or another browser) and then print the page, but then you probably wouldn’t be able to customize the printing settings sufficiently. Sorry for the mostly-OT ramble. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/11 "2004-06-22T16:46:08Z")
**js** , I’m not in front of a Windows computer right now, but I thought you could change the default settings of a printer from Control Panel/Printers. Maybe you could change the defaults while you print these photos and then change them back afterwards? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/12 "2004-06-22T17:09:40Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Maybe you could change the defaults while you print these photos and then change them back afterwards? Heh. Why didn’t I think of that. If the printer settings work, I can do the right click thingie. **chrisk** , I think that’d work because I can change the printer settings when I print a web page. The only problem is that printing from a web page always cuts things up for me so I might end up with half a photo on one page, half on another. Good idea though. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/13 "2004-06-22T17:51:56Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > **Bambi Hassenpfeffer** , that _almost_ works…maybe. When I click the “print” after right-clicking, what looks to be the MS Photo Editor pops up for a second or two and then it prints a black and white version to my printer—I don’t see a “next” nor any option to even make them landscape instead of portrait view. Sorry – the MS Photo Editor has taken over the Print command from the Windows Image and Fax Viewer. OK, hold down Ctrl and right-click on the file, and select **Open With…**. Select Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. After the image opens in the viewer, hit the Print button down towards the bottom of the window. The rest of the instructions pick up from step 3. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/14 "2004-06-22T20:58:52Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Select Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. After the image opens in the viewer, hit the Print button down towards the bottom of the window. I am such a 'tard. Is Windows Picture and Fax Viewer an XP thing? I’m on Windows 2K Professional and I can find no such entity, or at least, nothing that fits your description. I wonder if there is a freeware program that’ll do it. I swear, I am so lazy that I’ll spend days toiling over a method to save myself a little bit of labor. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/15 "2004-06-22T23:49:29Z")
What macro program do you use? I know there’s no AppleScript on a PC, but you have _something_, don’t you? (If I were given a PC and a reason to use it, I’d have CE Software’s QuicKeys on it in 10 seconds flat. I bet you can install an evaluation coyp for free, btw). Just drag all the files in the folder on top of the icon of your graphics program so that they all open and then run a macro that does Control-P, return (for OK), Control-W (close window) in loops until they’re all gone. If you need to set page setup and print params, include those in the loop of course. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/16 "2004-06-23T00:00:15Z")
Another possibility, if you have FileMaker Pro: create a new empty database file, create two fields, FileName (text) and Image (container) and then go to File:Import Records:Folder and follow the wizard instructions and click OK and it will suck all the images into FileMaker, one per record, with the image in the Image field and the file name in the FileName field. Arrange them in layout mode to your liking as you’d like to see them print. Do the Print Setup thing and print one as you normally would, specifying printer and specifying current record only. Then open the Scriptmaker and create the following script: ```auto Go to Record [first] Page Setup [restore, no dialog] Loop Print [no dialog] Go to Record [next, Exit after last] End Loop ``` Then click the “Perform” button and go get your printouts. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/17 "2004-06-23T00:51:11Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > I am such a 'tard. Is Windows Picture and Fax Viewer an XP thing? I’m on Windows 2K Professional and I can find no such entity, or at least, nothing that fits your description. It’s not on W2K, apparently. The PCs at school all run 2K and I couldn’t find it there today. Oh well. > [@](#): > > I swear, I am so lazy that I’ll spend days toiling over a method to save myself a little bit of labor. You’re an engineer at heart, obviously. Tell yourself this: If you find a way to automate it, then you won’t have to do it by hand when you have 300 pictures to do. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/18 "2004-06-23T01:06:25Z")
There’s a kick ass freeware graphic viewer than sailor always used to like that might be able to mass print the images. Ummm … i something . Oh yeah [irfanview here you go](http://www.irfanview.com/). Try that. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/19 "2004-06-23T01:10:46Z")
I just downloaded and tried it. It will do exactly what you want. Select the images you want to print in thumbnail mode, and then right click and choose the “print as single page image” option. \ Do you have pics of the bears fighting at the dump? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-print-jpg-files-folder-at-once-not-worthy-of-gq-thread/251629/20 "2004-06-23T13:30:52Z")
> [@astro](#): > > It will do exactly what you want. Indeed! It worked brilliantly! The SDMB may be the best five bucks I’ve ever spent! > [@](#): > > Do you have pics of the bears fighting at the dump? I wish! It seems to be from construction sites and mostly limited to earth & trees and broken-up concrete. Probably not a big environmental issue, but the neighboring farmer has been complaining and it is in violation of land-use regulations. This photo is particularly interesting. You might enjoy this one more.