Automatically Printing Photos
In this Guide
Enabling Printing
To enabling 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.
Setting up 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. 6x2 strips, 6x4 photos and square 6x6 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. 6x2 or 6x4) or a regular expression (e.g. 6x2.*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 6x2 strips, 6x6 square prints or 6x8 large prints. The printer ids for these settings could be set to 6x2, 6x6 and 6x8 respectively and Breeze Hub would be set up so that the default printer prints 6x2 strips, printer 2 is set up for 6x6 printers has the filter "6x6", printer 3 is set up for 6x8 printers has the filter "6x8"
Setting a 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.