Printing large photos

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Ken Wolff
Oct 5, 2004
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I have finished a 4 month project restoring a photo that is 8 by 50 inches taken in 1938 of the 75th reunion of the survivors of the battle of Gettysburg. It was in very rough condition as it was in my mothers basement rolled up for over 50 years. I have finally finished it to a point that I want a photo made of it to do the final inspections, etc.

Now to the problem. It is 8×50". I have an EPSON 960 and have previously printed off the roll photo paper and using the cutter successfully. I can go to the properties on the printer and select "user Defined" and set the sige up to well over 100 inches in length.

When I go to photoshop CS (W2Kpro, SP4) when I get to the user defined section I cannot find in the documentation or online how to set the size. It does have a panoramic (8.3 x 23.4) and that works very well BUT the print out is much to small as it scales it down so the hight is only about 4 inches.

Can any one point me in the right direction to do the user defined sheet size in CS.

I have checked the preferences but nothing seems obvious to me.

TIA
Ken
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Clyde
Oct 6, 2004
wolffen wrote:
I have finished a 4 month project restoring a photo that is 8 by 50 inches taken in 1938 of the 75th reunion of the survivors of the battle of Gettysburg. It was in very rough condition as it was in my mothers basement rolled up for over 50 years. I have finally finished it to a point that I want a photo made of it to do the final inspections, etc.

Now to the problem. It is 8×50". I have an EPSON 960 and have previously printed off the roll photo paper and using the cutter successfully. I can go to the properties on the printer and select "user Defined" and set the sige up to well over 100 inches in length.
When I go to photoshop CS (W2Kpro, SP4) when I get to the user defined section I cannot find in the documentation or online how to set the size. It does have a panoramic (8.3 x 23.4) and that works very well BUT the print out is much to small as it scales it down so the hight is only about 4 inches.

Can any one point me in the right direction to do the user defined sheet size in CS.

I have checked the preferences but nothing seems obvious to me.
TIA
Ken

You can do user defined print sizes, but not really in Photoshop. You do that in the printer software. Therefore, you are limited by what sizes your printer driver will do. Epson’s printer drivers do that that size (23.4 x 8.3") to fit a paper that they make. They also have the capacity to do roll paper. However, I think the length limit on that it 44".

So, you can write a new printer driver for your Epson. I wouldn’t recommend it though. The other option is find a printer that will print long prints. I know that Epson and HP pro level printers will do longer prints. These are big expensive printers that do a very nice job. There a plenty of professional service companies that have these and will print something for you – for a fee, of course.

Clyde

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