4 Foot of 6 foot printed

[Chris Wagner]

I have the ability to print on a HP 1050C plotter. I created a 36 x 72"
Poster in Publisher 2000 Win 98

I have the printer selected saying to use 36"x72" Paper. It is on a
roll that is 150' long.

When I go to print it prints only the first 48 " inches and stops.
However it spits out the rest of the 72" blank. So I have 4' of a 6'
poster printed on a 6' page. It just always seems to stop at 48". Even
went to the default settings for the plotter to make it 36x72,
rebooted, checked the settings, with the same results. Going to print
preview and changing the overlap it says it has to be printed on
multiple sheets because it is larger that the printer paper. As
Howard Dean says.... AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!.

I tried it on a newer version Publisher 2002 Win XP Pro with the same
results. I really don't want to keep tossing 6' pages as the paper is a
bit on the expensive side.

I know in the 'old' days lotus products would only let one print as
large as 22"x22". I hope there is no limit in publisher. Well at
least to 36x120.....

Any Ideas

Chris

 

[Ed Bennett]

I have the ability to print on a HP 1050C plotter. I created a 36 x
72" Poster in Publisher 2000 Win 98

I have the printer selected saying to use 36"x72" Paper. It is on a
roll that is 150' long.

All versions of Publisher up to Publisher 2002 have a maximum printable area
of 48".

Publisher 2003 can print larger areas once SP1 has been applied.

You can work around this in older versions by designing within the 48" limit
and then using Zoom Smart in your plotter driver to scale back up to the
finished size.

For example, in your case you could design at 18" x 36", then tell your
plotter driver to scale it up to fit a 36" x 72" sheet.

 

[Mary Sauer]

An explanation:

PUB2000: Large Banners and Posters Are Printed in Separate Sections on a Hewlett
Packard DesignJet Plotter
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244321/EN-US/

 

[Chris Wagner]

Thanks for the help...... Curious why a 48" limit

Chris Wagner

 

[Ed Bennett]

Thanks for the help...... Curious why a 48" limit

I believe this was explained somewhere - possibly the KB article

Basically, it was an ugly hack to circumvent the fact that some systems
would become unstable when printing documents larger than this size.