Printing

To print your project, click on FILE >> Print or select THE OUTPUT TAB >> To a Printer.
FotoFusion can print a single page at a time. This is true for all license types, including Extreme.

FotoFusion helps you print your projects with greater accuracy and with fantastic quality.

•	Click here to learn more how FotoFusion takes the guess-work out of configuring your prints.

•	Album work is facilitated by a diagram to help you determine the direction of your pages (right and left).

•	Downloadable paper guide projects are available in the store.

•	Extreme users can enjoy using printer-page segments, a feature that will assist printing over-sized projects in smaller sections, or to reassemble multi-sided projects or multi-element layouts on printer-friendly and export-friendly canvas sizes.

Why printing collages from FotoFusion is preferable to printing "flat files" through other applications
FotoFusion works with references to your original images. When it is time to output a collage (to a web page, a jpg file, or the printer), FotoFusion re-reads your original images and renders all the effects in your layout, such as text and drop shadows, at the final resolution you are asking to export. FotoFusion does NOT produce a single fixed-size bitmap image that you resize up or down for the different output types - your collage is completely and automatically rebuilt each time.

Printed output is LARGE. Consider a printer working at a standard 300 DPI to print out a 10"x10" image. The number of 'printer dots' that are required is 3000x3000; some quick math shows that this is 9,000,000 dots, each of which is described with 3 bytes, for a total of 27 megabytes (this is a comparatively small image for FotoFusion, which can handle huge poster sizes, but it gets the point across).

If you wanted, you could easily have FotoFusion render out that 27 megabyte image and then load that into some other graphics program, such as PhotoShop, and print it out. The temptation to use file compression would be there, for example to save the image using JPEG at 50% quality, resulting in a much smaller and easier-to-manipulate file; of course, the quality of the printed results would suffer.

The advantage of using FotoFusion to print is that the entire 27-megabyte 10"x10" image is produced "in memory" and never gets compressed on the way out to the printer. You get pristine output, direct from your original images, with high-quality resizing of the source images and no compression.

For information on outsourcing your printing to a pro-photo lab, consult the FAQ entry on the Output Options topic page.