
Under Scaling, select Fit to and change the setting to something like “2 by 2 page(s)”. Select: Print -> Page Setup (Vista and 7), or File -> Page Setup (in XP). Open the image you’d like to print in Paint. You’re going to find this hard to believe, but that built-in Windows app that will split-print an image for you is none other than Microsoft’s much-maligned Paint application!!Īlthough I have to say that Paint in Windows 7 is definitely better than the previous version, at least in terms of looks… The good news is that Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 all give you a wonderful (AHEM!) application that does exactly what you need… If you’re a serious Photoshopper, you’d probably just fire up that particular app and use the built-in functionality to split and print.įor the rest of us, however, that’s not exactly what we’d call “easy”. Obviously, you could just print the image to a single sheet of A4/Letter paper, but you’d lose a lot of detail.
Maybe it’s a picture of a map, and the resolution of the image is something like 2000 by 2200 pixels. Let’s say you’ve got a ginormous image that you’d like to print. This then shows the print control you will recognize from your old windows days:Ĭhoose how to print them and you're golden.UPDATE: See my new video from March 2021!
choose print from the Share ribbon menu options. Click the context menu key some keyboards have (usually box with three lines - a burger) to bring up the menu with the print option. Right Click (click with right-hand mouse button) one of the selected photos and choose print from the context menu that appears. Then print them using one of the following: Focus on a picture using keyboard arrow keys and select images using Ctrl + Spacebar (individual) or Shift + Spacebar (range). Ctrl + Left Mouse Click to select multiple individual ones. Open the folder containing the photos you want to print in Windows Explorer, then select the few you want using the normal methods: In Windows Explorer, select the images to print then right click one and select print from context menu.
I had expected to be able to do this from the Metro-style "Photos" app. Microsoft moved the cheese! I kicked myself when I found out how to do this oh-so-simple task.