How to print one image split between 4 pages of A4?

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Feb 13, 2005
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Hello all, what i’m trying to do is basically make a poster out of one image and make it big enough to mount on my living room wall. However, the maximum size my printer will print at is A4. Does anyone know of a program or way in CS to do this?
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Dave
Feb 13, 2005
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:56:32 -0000, "Christine" wrote:

Hello all, what i’m trying to do is basically make a poster out of one image and make it big enough to mount on my living room wall. However, the maximum size my printer will print at is A4. Does anyone know of a program or way in CS to do this?

unless you want a poster made of tiles,
you’ll have to support the local
professional printing shop.

Cheap work can become expensive work
when it became double work
(©dave in a philosophers mood 2005:-)

Dave
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paul
Feb 13, 2005
Christine wrote:

Hello all, what i’m trying to do is basically make a poster out of one image and make it big enough to mount on my living room wall. However, the maximum size my printer will print at is A4. Does anyone know of a program or way in CS to do this?

Shouldn’t it be possible with Imageready slices? I never understood that but it seems to perform such an action. The google picassa thing does this but I don’t know how many tiles it will do.
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Brian
Feb 14, 2005
Dave wrote:

unless you want a poster made of tiles,
you’ll have to support the local
professional printing shop.

Cheap work can become expensive work
when it became double work
(©dave in a philosophers mood 2005:-)

Dave
Wakey wakey Dave, look at the title of the thread. "How to print one image split between 4 pages of A4?" Obviously Christine does want to have a tiled image.
Just stirring you btw,

Brian 🙂
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Jaxtraw
Feb 14, 2005
"Christine" wrote in message
Hello all, what i’m trying to do is basically make a poster out of one
image
and make it big enough to mount on my living room wall. However, the
maximum
size my printer will print at is A4. Does anyone know of a program or way
in
CS to do this?

If, as I understand it, you just want to print the four quadrants of the image as individual prints, I’d be inclined to-

First resize your image to be 2Xheight, 2xwidth of A4. Set horizontal and vertical guides through the centre to divide it into quadrants. Make sure snap to guides is on. Use "new document" to make 3 copies. You now have 4 documents of your poster. On each one, select a different quadrant, then crop. Save as 4 different documents. Print.

Ian

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Brian
Feb 14, 2005
Jaxtraw wrote:
"Christine" wrote in message

Hello all, what i’m trying to do is basically make a poster out of one

image

and make it big enough to mount on my living room wall. However, the

maximum

size my printer will print at is A4. Does anyone know of a program or way

in

CS to do this?

If, as I understand it, you just want to print the four quadrants of the image as individual prints, I’d be inclined to-

First resize your image to be 2Xheight, 2xwidth of A4. Set horizontal and vertical guides through the centre to divide it into quadrants. Make sure snap to guides is on. Use "new document" to make 3 copies. You now have 4 documents of your poster. On each one, select a different quadrant, then crop. Save as 4 different documents. Print.

Ian
One other alternative, Christine, is to check if your "printer’s own options" offers this feature. Epson printers (at least some models) have offered tiled printing for quite a number of years now. You may be able to select what you want to do in your printer’s options.

Brian.
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Dave
Feb 14, 2005
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:45:02 +1100, Brian
wrote:

Dave wrote:

unless you want a poster made of tiles,
you’ll have to support the local
professional printing shop.

Cheap work can become expensive work
when it became double work
(©dave in a philosophers mood 2005:-)

Dave
Wakey wakey Dave, look at the title of the thread. "How to print one image split between 4 pages of A4?" Obviously Christine does want to have a tiled image.
Just stirring you btw,

Brian 🙂

Wakey wàkey Brian:-)
Thìs is what Christine said:

….Hello all, what i’m trying to do is basically make a poster out of ….one image and make it big enough to mount on my living room wall. ….However, the maximum size my printer will print at is A4. Does ….anyone know of a program or way in CS to do this?

and what I read is that she would love to make it big enough (at once) of course, but her printer can only do A4 at maximum.

(continuing the stirring:-)

Dave
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Carrie
Feb 15, 2005
"Christine" wrote in message
Hello all, what i’m trying to do is basically make a poster out of one
image
and make it big enough to mount on my living room wall. However, the
maximum
size my printer will print at is A4. Does anyone know of a program or way
in
CS to do this?

The printer I just got (Lexmark 5150 all in one) does this. Set on poster it prints 4 pieces of it, you can then put together. I haven’t tried it yet.

You probably don’t want to buy another printer (even one you can get at a very low price, now) just to make a poster, but I was reading about this in the instruction book, so thought I’d throw it in (LOL)

I’m not an expert and never tried making a poster, but I’d try dividing a picture into 4ths, and cropping each one into a separate picture, the size you want,(maybe with a border around for the taping/gluing) and printing each one and putting them together. Seems like using tape on the back of the pictures would work. Or, gluing them onto large heavy paper, or cardboard.

~ Carrie

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