I have been trying to use the new bad chest to try and make an automated factory but it wont deploy any prints from a blue print book.

book has around 120 prints in it and one of them is a filtered deconstruction print. book is in the bad chest.

sending the proper command signal with a value larger than 1 (to select a print within the book) does absolutely nothing.

for instance, using signal rbp-command with value of 106 and x value of -46 by my understanding should result in deploying blueprint 106 from the book with a center offset that is 46 tiles to the left of the deployer chest.

i can get it to deploy blueprints on an individual basis with rbp-command with value 1 but once its in blueprint book it does nothing.

Check the BADchest section of tips and tricks.

In your case, you need to use signals "rbp-command"=1 (use item in inventory) and "1st layer slot"=106 (book icon).
With additional "N-th layer slot" signals, you can use books within books.

ok, will do. I was reading the tips and tricks and part was not clear to me.