How do I stop Preview printing things in the center of the paper?

Preview always insists on printing things in the center of the paper, which is handy when I'm printing, say, a paper-page document, but when I'm printing images or PDF's less than the full paper size, the result is a big waste of paper, especially when I have to print out multiple documents. The only workaround to my knowledge is to throw all my documents into Pages and arrange and print them from there, but come on—that isn't an acceptable solution. This is a problem I would expect to find in Windows. Anyone know how to change this?

One action that you can follow is to open an image in Preview and set to show the Thumbnails. You can then drag some other images that you want to print into the Thumbnail bar. If you then select to print and with the Show Details view selected, choose the Layout menu and set the Pages Per Sheet menu to 2 or 4 or 6 (depending on the number of images you have to print) then this will print all of these images on a single page.

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