Printing from Photoshop using AppleScript

Question

I am working on a project that will automatically print an image that is moved to a folder.
Right now, I have the following working: the image from my camera saves to a folder on my desktop, then applescript opens the image in Photoshop and runs an action on it that resizes it, crops it, and then re-saves it into a different folder. Here's where my problem starts...
My printer - an Epson R800 - does not have a default paper size of 5x7 borderless. That selection has to be made in Photoshop, however, Photoshop actions will not capture paper settings. (Which I think is sooooo stupid, but that's another issue.)
When the image is dropped in the second folder, it currently automatically prints, but on "letter" size paper.
I need to script the following:
Tell Photoshop CS4 to open the image (well, I can do that), but then select the correct paper size (5x7 borderless), and print. I've tried a few different things and they aren't working.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Michelle

Answer 1

Here is a starter that is working just fine at work where I have access to CS2 and printers…
-- A path to an image file as text
set PrintImage to (path to desktop as text) & "HE2015.tif"
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
activate
-- Turn off the app dialogs
tell script preferences
set user interaction level to never interact
end tell
-- Get the new document preset
set DocPreset to document preset "A4-P" -- Change here
-- Make our new doc
set PrintDoc to make new document at beginning ¬
with properties {document preset:DocPreset}
-- Get the printer preset
set PrintPreset to printer preset "Xerox A3-P-SEF" -- Ditto Here
tell PrintDoc
set DocWidth to page width of DocPreset
set DocHeight to page height of DocPreset
-- Add a rectangle to hold the image
set ImageFrame to make new rectangle at beginning ¬
with properties {geometric bounds:{0, 0, DocHeight, DocWidth}}
tell ImageFrame
-- Put our image in the rectangle
place PrintImage as alias
-- Fit our image to fill box keeping proportions
tell image 1
fit given fill proportionally
fit given center content
end tell
end tell
print using PrintPreset without print dialog
end tell
end tell
There are two strings that you will need to change one for a 'new document preset' and the second for a 'print preset'…
The example just uses an image off my desktop to test with… Any problems post in the Indesign forum as this no longer belongs here…