Printing

In This Guide

• Enabling Printing
• Selecting Your Printer
• Multiple Printers
• Print Quota

Enabling Printing

To enable printing go to “File” then “Preferences” and enable “Print Photos”.

The number of copies to be printed is read from the XML summary file received from Breeze Booth. This means that however many copies you requested from the Photo Booth will be printed by Breeze Hub. The print layout is automatically rotated to match the printer’s page orientation before printing.

Select the “Resize prints to fill page” option if the prints are smaller than the page size.

Select the “Auto bleed” option if the prints have colored borders. This will extend the borders of the print to fill the printable area when printing to avoid possible white margins caused by the printer heads not being perfectly aligned.

Selecting Your Printer

To select your printer and set its preferences, go to “File” and then “Printer Setup”. Select the option “Setup default printer” and then set your options as normal. This will be the printer Breeze Hub will use as default when an image is printed.

Multiple Printers

Up to three different sets of printer settings can be defined to allow the Photo Booth to offer guests a choice of print formats e.g. 6×2 strips, 6×4 photos and square 6×6 photos.

When an event is created in the Event Editor a printer id can be defined in the Photo Settings tab which Breeze Hub uses to load the appropriate printer settings. It does this by comparing it with the filter values in the “Printer setup” dialog.

The filters can be a simple text prefix (e.g. 6×2 or 6×4) or a regular expression (e.g. 6×2.*DNP). When printing photos Breeze Hub will compare the printer id against the filter for printer 2 and will use those printer settings if the filter matches the printer id and the printer is defined. If printer 2 doesn’t match it compares the printer id against the filter for printer 3. If this doesn’t match it will print using the default printer settings.

Example: Breeze Booth is set up to offer guests three different print options: traditional 6×2 strips, 6×6 square prints or 6×8 large prints. The printer ids for these settings could be set to 6×2, 6×6 and 6×8 respectively and Breeze Hub would be set up so that:

Print Quota

Select “Don’t print if print quota used” to only print the number of prints set up in the event info. Each time Breeze Hub prints a photo it decrements the print counter and when this reaches zero Breeze Hub won’t print any more photos if “Don’t print if print quota used” is selected.

The print counter is the same print counter that can be shared with Breeze Booth for Windows and other apps from Breeze Systems. Breeze Hub broadcasts the current value of the print counter to connected iPads and they can access it using the printCounter token.