Print Thumbnail Contact Sheet

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The contact sheet function is used to print the contents of the thumbnail screen. The function is named after the photographic technique in which an entire roll of film is printed on a single sheet of paper.

When you press the Contact button, the Print Thumbnail Contact Sheet Dialog will appear.

Print Buttons

Select whether you wish to print only the single, visible page of thumbnails or whether you wish to print all of the pages on the current tab.

Halftone Options Buttons

Halftoning is the technique in which gray scales in the images are translated into the pure black and pure white dots a printer can produce.

Most printers, or their Windows printer drivers, are capable of acceptably halftoning images. For these printers, select Printer Generated halftones.

For other printers, select Computer Generated halftones. The LPI edit field allows you to specify the number of lines per inch in the halftone screen that will be applied to the image. There is a trade-off between the size of the screen and the number of grays the printer can reproduce:

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Using the example of a 600 dpi printer, with a 120 line screen we can produce 51 distinct gray levels. This usually produces acceptable results and is a satisfactory compromise between gray scale and screen size. Experiment to find the setting that best suits your taste.

Print Quality List Box

The Print Quality List Box allows you to select from among the various print qualities available for your selected printer.

Copies Edit Control

If your printer driver supports multiple copies, this edit control allows you to specify the number to print. Printing multiple copies is much faster than repeatedly printing single copies because the computer does not need to repeat its calculations for each copy.

Print To File Check Box

Selecting this check box will redirect the printed output to a file. This file can be sent to the printer later. You will be asked to enter a file name when you start the print job.

Collate Copies Check Box

If you are printing multiple copies, selecting this check box will cause each copy to be collated. That is each copy will be printed in its entirety in proper page order before the next copy is printed. Otherwise, the requested number of copies of each page will be printed together.

OK, Cancel and Setup Push Buttons

Pressing OK will start the print job.
Pressing Cancel will abort the printing procedure
Pressing Setup will bring up the Print Setup Dialog which is discussed in The File Print Setup Command.