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Title: Visio prints weird (EDIT* New Q)
Post by: crashdmj on June 23, 2003, 11:28:14 pm

How can I make it print to the edge of each paper....I tried taking away borders and it still does it......maybe I am doing it wrong?
Derek

Title: Re:Visio prints weird
Post by: u_rebelscum on June 24, 2003, 05:21:31 am

Quote from: crashdmj on June 23, 2003, 11:28:14 pm

How can I make it print to the edge of each paper....I tried taking away borders and it still does it......maybe I am doing it wrong?
Derek

I bet it's the printer related "Page Margin".

Only a very few printers have a zero page margin.  Heck, a 1/8" margin is very good; 1/4" is "normal"; but some printers have a minimum of 1/2" to 2/3" margins!

Title: Re:Visio prints weird
Post by: rampy on June 24, 2003, 11:01:24 am

You trim the pages and overlap them, and then tape them together.  (or you bring it down to kinko's or work in my case and print it full size on a plotter -- a draft at kinko's of black and white can't be that expensive... I hope)

rampy

Title: Re:Visio prints weird
Post by: AlanS17 on June 24, 2003, 11:02:43 am

You're gonna be hard=pressed to find a printer that can print all the way to the edge, but you'll have better luck in general with photo printers and laser printers.

Title: Re:Visio prints weird
Post by: shmokes on June 24, 2003, 11:04:20 am

All of the newer Epson photo printers will print edge to edge now.  I have an Epson 785epx that does (it also makes fantastic prints on photo paper) and you can pick it up for $100 - $150 now, I think.  Not that this one job would justify a new printer purchase, but it really is a great printer for the money.

Title: Re:Visio prints weird
Post by: crashdmj on June 24, 2003, 12:21:46 pm

Hmm....I guess I'll just trim and tape.
Derek

Edit* Is there a way to double the size of the visio file (it is currently 1:2) and then save it as a photoshop file so when I work on my CP art it will be true to size??

Title: Re:Visio prints weird
Post by: Frostillicus on June 24, 2003, 01:28:59 pm

Quote from: crashdmj on June 24, 2003, 12:21:46 pm

Edit* Is there a way to double the size of the visio file (it is currently 1:2) and then save it as a photoshop file so when I work on my CP art it will be true to size??

Save it in EPS format if you can (i don't remember if that's possible but it should make for a small file size) and then just open it up in photoshop - then go to IMAGE...IMAGE SIZE...and double the dimensions.  You might lose a little resolution, but that's the quickest way to do it I think.  You probably won't be using that image in the final overlay anyways.

Title: Re:Visio prints weird (EDIT* New Q)
Post by: rampy on June 24, 2003, 01:29:58 pm

why did you use the half scale models in the first place, crash?

just wondering...

Rampy

Title: Re:Visio prints weird (EDIT* New Q)
Post by: crashdmj on June 24, 2003, 01:40:27 pm

Cause the full scale was all messed up (stretched for some reason)...im not the brightest
Derek

I think I got it though, I saved it as an jpeg and then reset the image size in photoshop to 48x20...you think that did it.