Print several photos on one page
Printing photos one per sheet wastes most of the paper and all of the ink. Laying them out in an even grid on a single A4 page gets you four, six or nine prints from one sheet, cut apart afterwards - and doing it in a design tool rather than a print dialog means you control the gaps, the margins and the crop.
- Page
- A4 (210 x 297 mm) - 2480 x 3508 px at 300 DPI
- Grid
- 2 x 2, 2 x 3 or 3 x 3 cells
- Printer margin
- Keep about 10 mm clear all round unless printing borderless
- Export
- PDF at 300 DPI, so the page prints at true A4
What makes it work
- Work on the real page size The A4 preset is 2480 x 3508 at 300 DPI, so what you lay out is what the printer receives. US Letter, A5 and A3 presets are there too.
- Drop in a grid and link the photos A grid gives you even cells and even gutters in one step. Drag a photo onto a cell to link it - each one is cover-fitted, so nothing is stretched to fit.
- Respect the printer margin Most home printers cannot print to the paper edge and will shift or scale the page to cope. Keeping about 10 mm clear all round avoids that, unless you are printing borderless on purpose.
- Leave a cutting gutter If you are going to cut the prints apart, a few millimetres between cells gives the blade somewhere to go. Photos butted edge to edge leave no room for error.
- Export PDF and print at 100 percent Export the page as a 300 DPI PDF and turn off "fit to page" in the print dialog. Scaling to fit is what silently shrinks a carefully sized layout.
Templates that fit: A4 photo grid
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- How do I print 4 photos on one page?
- Start an A4 page, drop a 2 x 2 grid onto it, link a photo into each cell and export a PDF. Print it at 100 percent rather than "fit to page" so the sizes stay exact.
- What resolution do the photos need?
- A quarter of an A4 page is roughly 1240 x 1750 pixels at 300 DPI, which almost any phone photo exceeds. Pictures saved from the web are usually the ones that come out soft.
- Are my photos uploaded to make the sheet?
- No. The page is laid out and the PDF is written in your browser, so the photos stay on your device. There is no account and no upload.