Print Help

Contents

Introduction

Printing is available from both the Mosaic tab and the Mosaic Manager tab. Tap the menu icon button to present the options available, including Print, Poster, and Coloring book.

Quick print

Quick print

Quick print prints the Mosaic with solid tiles on 1, 2 or 4 pages and optionally, a color key.

Page 1 of a print
Page 2 of a print

Quick print with 2 pages

Quick print
Poster page 1

Quick print page 1

  
Poster page 2

Quick print page 2

Poster page 3

Quick print page 3

  
Poster page 4

Quick print page 4

Print

Print can make prints up to 200" with a variety of other options. Each of the entries in Print can be configured by tapping the entry in the view.

Configure printing a poster

Be aware that printing a large Mosaic can print many pages that must be trimmed and taped or glued together.

Example: Coloring book

Configure printing a coloring book

A coloring book is a mosaic printed on one or more pages, usually with a color key and the tiles are blank.

In the print sample below, note that the coloring book color key includes a blank box with each color entry. This can be used to substitute a color when coloring the mosaic.

Coloring book color key

Coloring book color key

Coloring book page

Coloring book

Other print options

Configure print options
Include color key
Include color key options Adds a color key to the print out and includes the color index number in each tile of the printed Mosaic. This option requires that Limit colors is ON. When Include color key is selected, you can chose the how the color key indices are printed.
  • Contrasting: prints the index number in either white or black depending upon the color of the tile
  • Gray: prints the index number in gray. If printing a coloring book, selecting gray also causes the tile outlines to print in gray rather than black.
  • Black: prints the index number in black
Color key

Color key

Mosaic with color key

Mosaic with color key indices printed Contrasting

Tile coloring
Tile fill options
Solid
Each tile in the mosaic is filled with a solid (opaque) color. Solid fill example
Small color dot
Instead of filling each tile of the Mosaic, a small dot of the color is included in each tile. This can provide a color clue for coloring books. Small dot example
Lightly shaded
A transparent version of the color is used to fill each tile of the Mosaic. This can be used as a clue for coloring books if desired Lightly shaded example
Blank (coloring book)
No color is drawn in each tile of the Mosaic.
Print size
The print size can be specified as a number of pages — 1, 2, or 4, or by size. The size of the printed mosaic is constrained to match the aspect ratio of the original photograph that was used to create the mosaic. Setting the print size
Advanced layout
Printers do not always print the exact size that was specified by a program. It can be frustrating when accuracy of the print matters. If this happens to you, ColorHints Mosaic offers two possible solutions.
  1. Sometimes trying the Photo option is enough to fix the problem
  2. In other cases, it may be necessary add some tile size compensation. This should be done by printing a single page of your mosaic at full size (use Blank tile fill to make it easier to measure). Then measure one or more of the tiles (in the direction you specified the tile size). Compare the average of this measurement to your specified size and enter the difference in Tile size compensation
Measuring tiles In this example we measure 8 tiles which should be 1" each. Eight of them are about 715⁄16", or about 1⁄128" (1⁄16"÷8 = 1⁄128") short each. We set the tile compensation to match. Setting printer compensation

Printing from the Mosaic Manager tab

Print and Quick print are much the same when used in the Mosaic Manager tab. Changes include:

Tutorial

A tutorial titled Sharing Mosaics in ColorHints Mosaic also covers printing.

Support

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