How to print multiple copies of an image on a single page

You can use ImageMagick's montage tool.

1. Install the imagemagic tools

   sudo apt-get install imagemagick
   

2. Combine your images. I have created this image, called foo.png as a demonstration:

   

   Run montage, telling it to make 3 rows of 5 images each (-tile 3x5), keeping the original size of the image (-geometry 300x400 and give it the same image 15 times as input:

   montage -geometry 300x400 -tile 3x5 foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png \
    foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png  montage.ps
   

   The result is:

   

3. Since that creates a postscript file (the language printers speak), you can print it directly from the command line using tools like lp or enscript. I don't have a printer at the moment so I can't check but this should work

   lp montage.ps
   

   or

   enscript montage.ps
   

From Command-Line Printing in Linux.

N-Up Printing

The -o number-up=value option selects N-Up printing. N-Up printing places multiple document pages on a single printed page. CUPS supports 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 16-Up formats; the default format is 1-Up:

lp -o number-up=1 filename 
lp -o number-up=2 filename 
lp -o number-up=4 filename 
lpr -o number-up=16 filename

The -o number-up-layout=value option chooses the layout of the pages on each output page:

-o number-up-layout=btlr
Bottom to top, left to right
-o number-up-layout=btrl
Bottom to top, right to left
-o number-up-layout=lrbt
Left to right, bottom to top
-o number-up-layout=lrtb
Left to right, top to bottom (default)
-o number-up-layout=rlbt
Right to left, bottom to top
-o number-up-layout=rltb
Right to left, top to bottom
-o number-up-layout=tblr
Top to bottom, left to right
-o number-up-layout=tbrl
Top to bottom, right to left

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So I assume it will be something like this:

lp -o number-up=4 number-up-layout=lrtb -d {printer} {filename} -n {copies} 

And it should print 4 images from left to right, top to bottom per page for the amount of {copies}. The numbers you can use seems fixed...

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If this does not work please leave a comment.

install gThumb (sudo apt-get install gthumb)

execute gThumb

select several image

right-click and select print

select image tab

increase Rows and Coulms