printing on banner paper

LP
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Liz_P
Oct 21, 2005
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I created a image that is 8.5 inches by 55inches to be printed on banner paper. My HP office jet printer seems to understand that it is to print on banner paper, but Photoshop Print with Preview doesn’t. I can only get it to print what is in the view box which is an 8.5X11 size.
Any help would be extremely appreciated!
Thanks, Liz

Using: Photoshop CS
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YrbkMgr
Oct 21, 2005
In the Print with Preview Dialog box, click the Page Setup button. Make sure your Paper Source is set correctly to reflect Roll Paper.
LP
Liz_P
Oct 21, 2005
Thanks for responding,

In Page Setup, I don’t have roll paper option, but I do have Banner (8.5X11in) and Banner[A4(210X297mm)]. I tried both of these, but got the same results.

Thanks,
Liz
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YrbkMgr
Oct 21, 2005
I don’t have roll paper option

That information is supplied from your printer. What that tells me is that your HP will print banner, but it will print it one 8.5 x 11 inch document at a time. That’s not really banner <smile>. It’s a way of fooling the printer into printing across several sheets of paper as if it were one.

Other printers can use rolls of paper – true banners.

So what photoshop is doing is correct – it will print out one page at a time, based on what your printer is telling it that it can do, and the preview is just verifying that.

Peace,
Tony
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brent bertram
Oct 21, 2005
Can you create a custom paper size in your printer driver ? I can on my Epson . Make the paper size 8 1/2 " x 55" and with luck, the driver will make that size available to Photoshop.
LP
Liz_P
Oct 22, 2005
I think my printer knows that it is using banner paper, it just doesn’t know its supposed to print the entire banner. After it prints on the first page, it tells me to eject the rest of the banner from the machine. I tried to set up the next page to be printed before the paper was ejected, but it wouldn’t let me.

I tried "user defined paper size" but with the same results. I’m not able to type in a custom size so that option is out of the question. I also tried saving the project as a jpeg instead of a psd, hoping the printer would understand a different file type, but alas, nothing has worked.

Thanks so much for your help. Any other ideas, besides getting a new printer?! Liz
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YrbkMgr
Oct 23, 2005
I think my printer knows that it is using banner paper,

Let’s clear this up. What is banner paper. Describe what you are loading please.
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Oct 23, 2005
Tony, banner paper is paper the sheets of which are connected together with perforations, similar to paper towels or toilet paper, except they are fan-folded at the perfs in the package. This allows you to print 8.5 x 22," 33," etc. with software that is capable of dealing with the banner paper. I don’t know if PS is capable. I know that Corel Photopaint 10 was not capable of doing so.

It’s called banner paper because it’s used in, e.g., elementary schools to print "Happy birthday, Jason!" (etc.) banners that are taped up over the blackboard. It actually originated among in the old days when Computer Science geeks would use line printers to do ASCII graphics on that fanfold green/white paper that the campus mainframe computer centers used. Many HP printers, in particular, have this capability.
TM
T_Mike_Hyndman
Oct 23, 2005
Doesn’t this type of paper need a "tractor mechanism" (toothed cogs) to feed it through and keep it on line as it goes through the printer?

TMH
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YrbkMgr
Oct 23, 2005
Michael, I know what banner paper is. You may have glossed over my post where I explain that. What you may not be aware of is the fact that some printers print in "banner mode" but the paper is not perforated. It just knows to go to sequential sheets. This is especially common with HP jet printers.

I always appreciate your contributions, but in this case, I was asking the poster a direct, specific question to establish a starting point, so that I don’t assume.

PS is capable of printing on roll paper, which would be considered a true banner, but that’s not really the point (at least not yet). I was hoping to discover what media she was loading because she is saying:

After it prints on the first page, it tells me to eject the rest of the banner from the machine. I tried to set up the next page to be printed before the paper was ejected, but it wouldn’t let me.

So I wanted to know what she considers banner paper, and more importantly, what she is actually loading.
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YrbkMgr
Oct 23, 2005
TMH,

Doesn’t this type of paper need a "tractor mechanism" (toothed cogs) to feed it through and keep it on line as it goes through the printer?

No. Years ago, with dot matrix, but not anymore. You can by preperfed or use regular 8.5 x 11 or use roll paper depending on the printer.
TM
T_Mike_Hyndman
Oct 23, 2005
Most printers use some form of cam mechanism/micro switch combination to determine when a sheet of paper has passed through the printer, ( X revolutions = a sheet of paper, fo example) with micro switch making or breaking when the sheet has passed through. This will work fine for all single sheet papers but the paper detection cycle would need to be modified to allow somehow for the printer to print "continuous". Is there a setting that would allow this on your printer?
TMH

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