how to print a 23.5" x 35" image on standard printer?

[TheShanMan]

Working on my CPO artwork and I'd like to print on paper so I can lay it out on the CP just to verify that everything looks right. I'm having a bear of a time figuring out how I can print it across multiple pages (should be 3 pages by 4 pages using 8.5x11).

I don't care if I print a vector format or a raster format. I'm working in Inkscape, and would gladly convert it to whatever format possible and load it into whatever application possible to allow me to do this.

[NickG]

If you use (MS) Paint (if you use windows at all), you can enlarge an image to a specific height and width using the stretch/skew menu.  You can use the attributes menu to see the size of the image in inches.  When you have finished adjusting the intended size of the image in Paint.  When you print the image from paint it should span across multiple pages if you do not have any funny scaling options selected. 

If you run into trouble or want to try an easy way, check out The Rasterbator (link)

[TheShanMan]

Originally I tried ms paint, but it wouldn't load the image because it was too large. But it didn't occur to me at the time that I could just export it as 72 dpi rather than 300 and print it from ms paint that way. I need to measure it to confirm that it's exactly 23.5x35, but it looks good on first glance. Pretty amazing that I have to resort to using a crap program like ms paint just to print it though!

Thanks NickG!

[bvicarious]

I don't know if inkscape has this, but in illustrator you can tile your output so that if you have a 23.5" control panel, it would print it at actual size across three pages. In the print options its under page setup, and you can also make it overlap the edges so that you can line them up.

[TheShanMan]

Not that I could find. Thanks though.

[ChoiceStriker]

If you run into trouble or want to try an easy way, check out The Rasterbator (link)

  @ that name!

BTW I find it amazing that your CP is 23.5" deep... my DK's CP is only 22.5" WIDE!!

[Ginsu Victim]

If you run into trouble or want to try an easy way, check out The Rasterbator (link)

  @ that name!

BTW I find it amazing that your CP is 23.5" deep... my DK's CP is only 22.5" WIDE!!

Oh man! Thanks for pointing that out. I read it as width. Mine is only 23 5/8" x 11"

[AcidArmitage]

u can use page tiling in Adobe Illustrator 

[TheShanMan]

BTW I find it amazing that your CP is 23.5" deep... my DK's CP is only 22.5" WIDE!!

Who said it's 23.5" deep? It's actually 23.5" wide, 11" deep, and the CPO will wrap underneath. Furthermore, my graphic is 35" tall because I have swappable panels so I need space to make overlays for each "inner" panel that I have.

u can use page tiling in Adobe Illustrator 

It was already mentioned that AI can do that, and I stated that I'm using Inkscape.

[leapinlew]

Some people discuss methods here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=75586.0

[Ginsu Victim]

BTW I find it amazing that your CP is 23.5" deep... my DK's CP is only 22.5" WIDE!!

Who said it's 23.5" deep? It's actually 23.5" wide, 11" deep, and the CPO will wrap underneath. Furthermore, my graphic is 35" tall because I have swappable panels so I need space to make overlays for each "inner" panel that I have.

Your thread title is misleading when you ask about printing 23.5" x 35" for you control panel. What are we supposed to think? (It just sounds backwards, because who would think 23.5" wide and 35" deep? See, that makes even less sense.)

[TheShanMan]

I never said my control panel was 23.5" x 35". I said my image was 23.5" x 35". The size of my panel has nothing to do with the question I asked, so it doesn't really matter one way or another if someone thinks my panel is 35" deep. Why are you making a big deal out of this?

[Ginsu Victim]

I'm not making a big deal at all. I was just saying that of course it makes sense to you, but all some of us saw was the size you needed to print, and that you were laying out a CPO.

Here's the topic:    
how to print a 23.5" x 35" image on standard printer?

And your first sentence.
Working on my CPO artwork and I'd like to print on paper so I can lay it out on the CP just to verify that everything looks right.

Easy to be confused by that.

[TheShanMan]

OK, but it's still irrelevant.

[Ginsu Victim]

I agree