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Bibble uses print queues to specify the following print settings:

• | The printer that processes the job

• | The print size and layout specifications

• | The print quality levels

The default setting print queue processing is to hold images added to the queue until you open a print queue's Print Progress dialog box and initiate batch printing.

Creating a New Print Queue

To create a new print queue:

1. | In the browser panel, click the Print Queues tab.

2. | Right-click inside the Print Queues list area and from the context menu, click New.

Bibble adds a new queue entry in the Print Queues list and opens the Print Progress dialog box (populating the fields with Bibble's default settings).

1. | To give the new print queue a descriptive name, click the new queue entry in the Print Queues list, right-click, and select Rename from the context menu.

2. | Type a new name for the print queue and press the Enter key on your keyboard to set the name.

Bibble saves the new queue automatically. If you want to use Bibble's default print queue settings, you can close the Print Progress dialog box. Or, you can edit the print layout and image-processing settings.

Editing Print Layout Settings

To set the print layout settings:

1. | Double-click the print queue to open the Print Progress dialog box.

2. | Under Printer, select a layout from the drop-down menu:

• | Custom: Defines custom print layouts that include page templates to organize images of varying sizes on a printed page.

• | Fixed Size: Defines print layouts for images of fixed sizes such as 3 X 5, 4 X 6, or any custom proportion.

• | N-up: Defines a table-style layout for images where you specify the number of rows, columns and the spacing between images.

• | Contact Sheet: Defines a table-style layout for images that includes text fields for captions.

Editing Custom Layout Settings

To edit the custom layout settings:

1. | Under Printer, open the drop-down menu and click Custom.

2. | In the Layout field, open the drop-down menu and click one of the pre-defined custom layouts.

The layout window shows the layout of images and text fields specified by the custom layout.

Editing Fixed-Size Layout Settings

To set the fixed-size layout settings:

1. | Under Printer, open the drop-down menu and click Fixed Size.

2. | Under Image Size, open the drop-down menu and select a fixed image size. Or select the Custom option.

3. | If you select Custom, set the height and width of the image in the inches fields.

4. | Under Pictures per page, select the number of pictures you want on one printer page.

5. | If you want to print only one image per page, click the Use one image per page check box.

6. | If the image size you specified is too large for the page, click Reduce to fit to automatically scale the image(s) to the page size.

Editing N-up Layout Settings

The N-up layout setting lets you specify the number and layout of thumbnail images you want to print per page. To set the N-up layout settings:

1. | Under Printer, open the drop-down menu and click N-up.

2. | Under Grid Size, in the cols field, enter the number of colums in the grid.

3. | In the rows field, enter the number of rows in the grid.

4. | In the Spacing field, enter the amount of space between thumbnails (measured in pixels).

5. | Turn on the Best fit option if you want Bibble to adjust the orientation (portrait/landscape) of the thumbnails automatically to maximize space on the printed page.

If the Best fit setting is turned off, Bibble aligns the thumbnail images in portrait orientation.

Editing Contact Sheet Layout Settings

The Contact Sheet layout setting lets you specify the number and layout of thumbnail images you want to print per page. It also lets you specify the size, of the caption cell, the font size and the caption description. To set the contact sheet layout settings:

1. | Under Printer, open the drop-down menu and click Contact Sheet.

2. | Under Grid Size, in the cols field, enter the number of colums in the grid.

3. | In the rows field, enter the number of rows in the grid.

4. | Under Caption, open the position drop down menu and click either Bottom, Top, Left, or Right to set the position of the caption in relation to the thumbnail.

5. | In the %cell field, enter a number that specifies the size of the caption field as part of the overall size of the thumbnail field.

6. | In the caption text field, type the caption description that you want to set next to each thumbnail.

7. | In the Font size field, enter the point size that you want to set for the caption font. If you don't want to specify a particular point size, set the font size to Auto to adjust the font size to fit in the available space.

8. | In the Spacing field, enter the amount of space between thumbnails (measured in pixels).

Specifying Image Settings and Print Quality

The Image Settings options specify how Bibble applies image settings to the images processed in the print queue. To set the image settings for the for the print queue:

1. | Click Image Settings, to open the Image Settings dialog box.

2. | Select whether you want the image settings taken from one of the following sources:

o | Current: This option processes images using the image settings that have been applied to each individual image manually.

o | Defaults: This option processes images using Bibble's default image settings.

o | From controls: This option processes images using the settings specified in controls that are currently active.

o | From file: This option processes images using settings defined in the specified configuration file.

1. | Select the Preserve rotation option to process the image using the customized rotation settings for the image.

2. | Select the Preserve crop option to process the image using the customized crop settings applied to the image.

3. | Select the Ignore crop options to disregard the crop settings applied to the image.

4. | Click Save to set the Image Settings options for the print queue.

5. | In the Quality field, open the drop-down and select either High, Medium, Low or Draft print quality.

Editing Print Setup and Printer Processing Options

Bibble provides several printer setup and print processing options that are set in the Print Processing dialog box. The print queue can be configured to process images in the following ways:

• | Printed as they are added to the queue

• | Held in the queue and printed at a later time

Setting Auto Start and Partial Page Options

To set the auto start and partial page printing options:

1. | Click the Auto start check box if you want images added to the print queue to process as soon as they are added to the queue.

2. | Conversely, if you want to hold images in the queue, click the Auto start check box to remove the check mark.

3. | To print pages where all available image slots are not filled, click the Partial pages check box.

4. | Conversely, if you do not want to print pages that are not filled with images, click the Partial pages check box to remove the check mark.

Using Printer Color Profiles

Printer profiles match the color of the image on your calibrated monitor to the printer that you intend to use to output prints. Printer profiles are files that have .icc or .icm extensions that define the color calibration settings for a specific printer. Bibble lets you load a specific printer's profile so that you can achieve greater control over color saturation in the output prints.

Note: Printer profile files that use an .icc extension should not be mistaken with a camera's custom color management profile, which also uses an .icc extension. Also, it is important that you calibrate your monitor so that the printer profile has an accurate baseline for matching prints.

To specify a custom printer profile:

1. | Click the Use profile check box.

2. | Click Printer Profile and in the Select a printer profile dialog box, browse to the printer profile file that you want to associate with the selected print queue.

3. | Select the printer profile file and click Open.

Configuring Print Setup Options

The Print Setup button opens your operating system's print dialog box. From this dialog box, you can select a printer and configure the printer's output settings. To configure the Print Setup options:

1. | Click Print Setup.

2. | In the Print dialog box, select a printer from the list.

3. | Specify the print options available through the printer driver.

Although printer drivers differ, most drivers let you specify basic options such as the page range and the number of copies you want to print for each page. Some printer drivers let you specify other settings such as page layout and orientation options as well as the paper type and print quality.

Starting the Printing Process

To process images that are held in the queue:

1. | Double-click the print queue name to open the Print Progress dialog box.

2. | Use the Page Up or Page Down buttons to find the page you want to print.

3. | Click Print.

To remove images from the print queue.

1. | Double-click the print queue name to open the Print Progress dialog box.

2. | In the image list, click the image you want to remove from the print queue.

3. | Click Remove.

Related Topics

Adding Images to Print Queues

Viewing Print Queues

Deleting Print Queues