Maxium print length from PS-CS problem

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Jan 11, 2005
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Hi all, I have a HP designjet 130 printer. This creature can print up to 30 metres long banners. So far the largest print I’ve made from Photoshop (CS) has been 610mm wide x 900 mm long. So along comes a customer today with a very nice TIFF file of a panorama and wants a print 600 wide and 1600 long.

OK… So I set the custom size in the printer management and choose the roll feed as source etc, etc and open the image in Photoshop. Go to "print with preview" and nothing happens. choose straight "print" and up pops a warning the document is too big for the paper size (which it is not) so I hit print anyway. I get a 300mm long print of the tail of the photo.

I ended up printing the picture with Corel Draw by importing the image into a custom size document. The colour is the same as the part from PS but the worry here is that PS wouldn’t print the picture. Can anyone enlighten me as to why or possible point me to a solution? The on-line manual doesn’t elaborate on maximum print dimensions that I can find and until the holidays are over I can’t get to the printed manual.

Thanks,
Kiah.
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One Million Pictures
Jan 11, 2005
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Hi all, I have a HP designjet 130 printer. This creature can print up to
30
metres long banners. So far the largest print I’ve made from Photoshop
(CS)
has been 610mm wide x 900 mm long. So along comes a customer today with a very nice TIFF file of a panorama and wants a print 600 wide and 1600
long.
OK… So I set the custom size in the printer management and choose the
roll
feed as source etc, etc and open the image in Photoshop. Go to "print with preview" and nothing happens. choose straight "print" and up pops a
warning
the document is too big for the paper size (which it is not) so I hit
print
anyway. I get a 300mm long print of the tail of the photo.
I ended up printing the picture with Corel Draw by importing the image
into
a custom size document. The colour is the same as the part from PS but the worry here is that PS wouldn’t print the picture. Can anyone enlighten me
as
to why or possible point me to a solution? The on-line manual doesn’t elaborate on maximum print dimensions that I can find and until the
holidays
are over I can’t get to the printed manual.

Thanks,
Kiah.
Just to answer my own question…
It seems that the fabled Photoshop can create or edit a photograph of 1600 mm length but can’t print it!
This is either a major marketing ploy to get people to cough up for illustrator too, or a real undocumented flaw in the program. It seems on the Adobe forum the subject was discussed and a senior Adobe designer acknowledged the existance of the limitation. His workaround was to open the image in Windows "paint" and print it from there!!!

The further I go with Photoshop… The closer I come to using alternate programs. It seems the limitations of the software are not public knowledge. I can only surmise that people printing to plotters and digital photo printers are using different software. No problem for me in using Corel Draw to do the print but that means opening and saving and reopening and image. Time factor is the issue here.

Kiah
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SpaceGirl
Jan 22, 2005
One Million Pictures wrote:

Just to answer my own question…
It seems that the fabled Photoshop can create or edit a photograph of 1600 mm length but can’t print it!
This is either a major marketing ploy to get people to cough up for illustrator too, or a real undocumented flaw in the program. It seems on the Adobe forum the subject was discussed and a senior Adobe designer acknowledged the existance of the limitation. His workaround was to open the image in Windows "paint" and print it from there!!!
The further I go with Photoshop… The closer I come to using alternate programs. It seems the limitations of the software are not public knowledge. I can only surmise that people printing to plotters and digital photo printers are using different software. No problem for me in using Corel Draw to do the print but that means opening and saving and reopening and image. Time factor is the issue here.

Kiah

Hm. Use the program for what it is designed for; Photo retouching. Beyond that, the functionality really isn’t there – by design. It’s an editing program! If you want to do poster design (or very large format images), you should be using Illustrator in combination with PhotoShop.

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