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Poster Printing

Driver settings for Windows
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.

Note:

This feature is not available with Mac OS X.

This feature is not available when selecting the Borderless check box on the Main menu (Windows).

Driver settings for Windows

Access the printer driver.

For Windows in "Accessing the Printer Driver"

Click the Main tab, then select one of the Quality Options recommended below. For details of other Quality Options, see online help.

Draft for rough drafts with reduced print quality

Text for text-only documents with higher text quality

Text & Image for higher quality documents with text and images

Photo for good quality and speed

Best Photo for the best print quality

Select the tray where paper is loaded as the Source setting.

Automatic or Back for the back tray

Automatic for the front tray

Select the paper type loaded in the tray as the Type setting.

Selecting the Correct Media Type

Select the paper size of your file as the Size setting. You can also define a custom paper size. For details, see the following section.

Making User Defined Paper Sizes

Select Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide) to change the orientation of your printout.

Note:

For more print settings, click Advanced. Click Help for more information.

Click the Page Layout tab and select the Multi Page, then select Poster Printing. Click the up or down arrow to select 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4.

Click Settings to adjust the way your poster will be printed. The Poster Settings dialog box opens.

Make the following settings.

Print Cutting Guides	Select this check box to turn the cutting guide options on.
Overlapping Alignment Marks	Slightly overlaps the panels and prints alignment markers so that the panels can be aligned more precisely.
Trim Lines	Prints border lines on the panels to guide you when trimming the pages.

Note:

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.

Click OK to close the Poster Settings dialog box.

After completing the steps above, print one test copy and examine the results before printing an entire job.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Align the edges of the paper together using the alignment markers and tape them from the back side of the paper.

Repeat the instructions from step 1 to step 4 to tape Sheets 3 and 4 together.

Repeat the instructions from step 1 to step 4 to tape the top and bottom faces of the paper.

Cut off the remaining margins.

Warning:

Be careful when using sharp tools.

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