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Printing with Photos app

When previewing my pictures before printing, they will be set up one way (example: 5 pics side by side from top to bottom of the paper), but when I go to print them, it shows up as 2 rows of 2 pics and 1 row of 1 pic. Why does it get rearranged from the preview to the print page? Is there a way to change that? What am I missing?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Feb 26, 2022 8:28 AM

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Feb 26, 2022 10:36 AM in response to Springs859

OK - I am seeing the same thing. It is to do (I think) with the fact that the preview is showing the layout on a landscape oriented page, and the print then puts it on a portait oriented page. You can see in the small thumbnail to the right in your screenshot with the preview the final (portrait) layout.


I've not yet found a way to put the preview into portrait format so that it matches.

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Feb 26, 2022 11:05 AM in response to TonyCollinet

I noticed the same thing about the layouts being landscape and portrait respectively. When just printing a page of something normally (like through Google Docs, etc), there is an option for landscape or portrait. I do not see anything like that in the Photos app. That's what I thought I might be missing - how to do that. Thanks for your input.

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Feb 27, 2022 9:42 AM in response to léonie

Hi Leonie


I tried that - it doesn't change the layout of the large preview. What we are seeing (as you can see in the first screenshot above, and unlike yours) is what is shown in the large preview doesn't match the small "custom" thumbnail. It is what is shown in the small thumbnail that prints.

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Printing with Photos app

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