Hotfolder Prints 1.8.3

Hotfolder Prints is a handy application that allows you to monitor a folder and automatically print the new images. The program can help you increase the productivity by arranging the images on a page and by printing them.

You can view the new images as a slideshow in full screen mode by using the Breeze Viewer that is included in the installation.

An invaluable tool for event photographers and photobooth operators wanting to automatically lay out images and then print, copy, email them, upload to social networking sites or display the photos as a sliedshow.

Hotfolder Prints monitors a folder for new JPEG images and when the required number of images are available it automatically formats them into a page ready for printing, copying elsewhere or emailing. Hotfolder Prints uses the same layout options as our popular photobooth software and can place up to 10 different photos on a page with any size and orientation together with a background, overlay and captions. This allows almost any layout to be designed from single photos with captions and logos through to complex layouts with multiple photos and transparent overlays.

A number of example uses for Hotfolder Prints are described below:

Event Photography

Setting up a mini studio with a backdrop and lights to take portraits is a popular form of event photography. Typically the photographer takes several photos of people and then either prints them all automatically or has an assistant who reviews them with the customer and selects the best ones for printing. Hotfolder Prints can help with both scenarios:

Automatic printing: The photographer takes the photos which are automatically downloaded to the PC (e.g. by shooting tethered using software our camera control software or using an Eye-Fi memory card to wirelessly transfer photos to the PC). Hotfolder Prints will monitor the download folder and when it has the required number of images it will automatically format and print them. This could be single images which need to be resized to fit a page and sharpened with the photographer's logo or the event name added or several images could be printed on the same page.

Selective printing: The photographer takes several pictures of each guest and these are downloaded automatically to the PC as above. An assistant then reviews the images with the guests (e.g. using our BreezeBrowser Pro software), selects the best ones and copies them to the hot folder. Hotfolder Prints will monitor the hot folder and when it has the required number of ima