
Reference Guide
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Various Printing Options
Poster Printing
Loading paper
Driver settings
How to make a poster from your printouts
Poster printing allows you to print poster-size images by enlarging one page to cover several sheets of paper.
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This feature is not available when selecting the Borderless check box on the Main menu.
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Loading paper
Load paper into your printer.

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Driver settings
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Access the printer driver.
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Click the Main tab, then make the Quality Option setting. See the following section for details on the Quality Option settings.
See Quality Option
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Make the appropriate Type setting.
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Make the appropriate Size setting.
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Click the Page Layout tab, select Multi-Page, then select Poster Printing. Click the up or down arrow to select 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4.
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Click Settings to adjust the way your poster will print. The Poster Settings dialog box opens.
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Make the following settings.
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Print Cutting Guides
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Select this check box to turn the cutting guide options on.
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Overlapping Alignment Marks
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Slightly overlaps the panels and prints alignment markers so that the panels can be aligned more precisely.
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Trim Lines
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Prints border lines on the panels to guide you when trimming the pages.
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Note:
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If you want to print only a few of the panels without printing the entire poster, click the panels that you do not wish to print.
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Click OK to close the Poster Settings dialog box.
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After finishing all of the steps above, start printing.

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How to make a poster from your printouts
Here is an example of how to make a poster with 2x2 selected under Poster Printing and Overlapping Alignment Marks selected as the print cutting guide. Refer to the accompanying illustrations as well.
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Cut off the margin of Sheet 1 along a vertical line through the center of the top and bottom cross marks, as shown in the illustration below.
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Place the edge of Sheet 1 on top of Sheet 2 and align the cross marks, then temporarily tape the two sheets together from the back side.
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Cut the taped sheets in two along a vertical line through the alignment markers (this time, a line to the left of the cross marks), as shown in the illustration below.
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Align the edges of the paper together using the alignment markers and tape them from the back side of the paper.
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Repeat the instructions from step 1 to step 4 to tape Sheets 3 and 4 together.
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Repeat the instructions from step 1 to step 4 to tape the top and bottom faces of the paper.
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Cut off the remaining margins.
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Warning:
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Be careful when using sharp tools.
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