Printing multiple items

I read one reply to printing that said flattening a psd image and printing it as tif would not change the quality. It changes mine. I have tried flattening multi layers and many times I can see the change right before my eyes (not every time). I was letting my wife help me decide between which of two bookmarkers I would keep, and when I flattened it, she went "ugh". The "style" effect that I used turned to ugly bubbles.

I create multi layered bookmarkers that are 2.5" by 7.5" in size. These will fit
four to a sheet (8.5 x 11). How do I print four of these at once in psd format?

I have tried dragging all four onto a newly opened canvas that is 8.5 x 11 and it is a
horrible task with all the layers. Is there a better way?

I have just found this forum. It's gotta lotta bells and whistles. So far it looks nice.

Thanks much
William

You wouldn't happen to have Adobe Indesign . . . would you? Indesign will import and print .psd, if you don't Adobe offers a trial version from it's website - just don't use it commercially.

As far as flattening an image and losing quality - that has me baffled . . . I have flattened thousands od images and never had the problem. One thing to check though - zoom in . . . if you haven't already . . . a lot of times a graphic will look like junk at anything other than 100%.

i have never heard of an image changing after it has been saved either.

what happens if you save it as a BMP or Tiff or even a high quality jpeg and then bring them all together in one document.

Or you could just link all the visible items on each document and simply drag it once to a new window.
That way you wont have to rearrange all the layers

Quick note to this redundant thread:

NEVER save as a BMP for printing purposes. Ever.

TIFF, EPS or PSD...DCS for spot color seps...

Please followup this post to the more advanced photoshop forum. When I didn't receive
an answer within a couple days, being new to this web site, I thought that no one knew
the answer to my question. I will followup on your replies now through the duplicate thread.:confused: