Automating printing dilema.. please help me urgent advice needed

[akarandom]

Hi

I am trying to make an action to print a 6x8 photo, landscape on a kodak printer.

I have made the printer default already and can print from it using an action.. However I cannot seem to be able to automate printing a 6X8 photograph.
the file size is correct and I have printed a photo that size with the pre defined presets of that printer driver using an action that I created

However when I close and reopen photoshop it prints as a 6x4. Which is the default size for that print driver ( it is a Kodak print Kiosk that we are trying to control from a laptop and we will be printing photos on the go every day for a month... we are doing santa photos.

So what happens is that we have a template setup which an action imports the photo into.. then we want to print it as a 6x8 photograph - landscape orientation.

Can this be done in an action or is there a way so we can have this as a default photoshop print setting??
the paper size is 6" wide and is on a roll...

I really need to sort this by tomorrow afternoon as we are setting up the next day to photograph etc.


Help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED as I am rather stressed about this at the moment.

 

[Paul MR]

You will need to set Photoshop up at the begining of your session to print as you require. Setting presets isn't possible from Photoshop, maybe with an external program.

I think CS3 had a problem where you couldn't use an action to print and had to use a one line script..
activeDocument.printOneCopy();
Here is what can be done via a script...

var doc = app.activeDocument; 
doc.printOneCopy(); //Print One Copy
doc.printSettings.flip = false;
doc.printSettings.setPagePosition(DocPositionStyle.SIZETOFIT);
// DocPositionStyle.USERDEFINED 
// DocPositionStyle.PRINTCENTERED 
// DocPositionStyle.SIZETOFIT 
doc.printSettings.negative = false;
doc.printSettings.caption = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.labels = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.cornerCropMarks = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.centerCropMarks = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.colorBars = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.regMarks = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.negative = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.flip = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.interpolate = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.vectorData = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.hardProof = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.mapBlack = true/false; 
doc.printSettings.printSelected = true/false; 

var bgColor = new SolidColor; 
bgColor.rgb.red = xxx; 
bgColor.rgb.green = xxx; 
bgColor.rgb.blue = xxx; 
doc.printSettings.backgroundColor = bgColor; 

doc.printSettings.renderIntent = Intent.PERCEPTUAL;
//intent.SATURATION/ intent.RelativeColorimetric/intent.intent.AbsoluteColorimetric; 

doc.printSettings.printBorder = xx; 
doc.printSettings.bleedWidth = xx; 
doc.printSettings.setPagePosition(DocPositionStyle, X (optional), Y (optional), scale (optional));
doc.printSettings.setPagePosition(DocPositionStyle.USERDEFINED, 1.5, 2.0); 
 
var currPrinter = doc.printSettings.currentPrinter; 
var message = "Printer is: " + currPrinter; 
alert(message); 

printers = doc.printSettings.printers; 
message = "Printers are: " + printers; 
alert(message);