Gnome Photo Printer (apt-get gnome-photo-printer) is for exactly this use case.

der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> surely there's a simple way to take a directory of pictures and print 4 to
> a page. I've tried nautilus, f-spot and kphotoalbum and haven't found
> anything that would work.
> 
> I'm certain I could just import them to OOo/GIMP/etc 4 to a page, but I
> don't want to have to mess with setting up 30 pages.
> 
> This is obviously for someone else as I generally don't dead-tree things.
> 
> I'm certain this can be easily accomplished via command line, so that's
> where I'm going to start looking. I'd really rather be able to point out
> to someone else how to do this via clicky-clicky so I don't get stuck with
> it again :).
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans