Automator-creating actions for printing

I would like to create an automator action for printing in preview. When printing, I have several print profiles set up based on black and white, color, etc. I also send those profiles to different trays when I print to my multifunction printer. For example, I will select a page in Preview, print in color to tray 1. Then perhaps I would select 2 pages and select black and white printing to tray 2 with a double sided copy. What I would like to do is create an automator action/script or whatever that would select the appropriate print settings so I don't need to keep clicking boxes and change settings every time I need to go through a document to print. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
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To answer your last questions... yes and yes!
PSE has tools for automatically creating collages. You can also manually create one by adding pictures to a blank template. In either case the pictures will appear on separate layers which you can then individually resize, rearrange, rotate, overlap, etc. You can crop them to whatever shape you like, add effects such as borders, frames, drop shadows, and add text inside or outside the pictures.
Here is an example I created.

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