Digital BW, The Print

Thank you Anne,
It is encouraging that you have the same OS and it's working for you.
I have not tried the Front Feeder nor have I ensured 1/2 inch margins.
I have tried 0, 0.13, & 0.25 margins.
How do you do this - if the paper is 17 in wide then do you size your image to 16 inches wide ?  Or if it's a panorama then size it to 16 in height? And do you additionally set the margin size in the Page setup window to 0.5 in?
I'm not clear what you mean by a larger substarte holding your paper - like taping a smaller sheet onto a larger 17 x 35 sheet?

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, anne saint Peter <asp.artist@...> wrote:
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> Not sure what help this is...I'm printing up 30 + inches on my 3800 using
> the front feeder. I am using a larger, 35 inch substrate to hold my paper. I
> just reset the image size to the substrate size in the printer dialogue box,
> and make sure I have at least 1/2 inch margin around the paper I am printing
> on. The image has been oriented correctly (how I want it to print ) in PS.
> This has worked in both PS 3 and 5. Using Mac 10.5.8.
> 
> Anne
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:28 AM, frankg_photo <frankgross@...> wrote:
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> >
> >
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> > I am trying to print an image that is sized to 40cm x 60 cm (23.619 inches
> > x 15.747 inches) on an epson 3880. Since the image is longer than the preset
> > paper sizes (max 17x22), I am cutting off a paper roll and trying to use
> > Custom Size Management.
> >
> > Anyone have success printing longer than 22 inches on the 3800/3880 ?
> > I am getting the weirdest results with incorrect orientation and only
> > segments of the image printing . If you google 'custom sizes 3800 mac' you
> > see that I am not the only one, but there isn't a clear solution.It seems
> > that PS & the page setup aren't talking to each other nicely.
> > Preset sizes work OK.
> >
> > Using Mac OSX 10.5.8 & CS4. I enter the correct width x height in the
> > File>Page setup. It gives itself a name like 'untitled' which I can re-name.
> > But in the PS>Print window it shows the orientation reversed. If I switch
> > the width x height numbers in page setup (width as height etc) it shows it
> > correctly in the PS>Print preview. Either way it doesn't print correctly,
> > and not only is there incorrect orientation but it very weirdly only prints
> > a segment of the image(like a 5.5 inch).
> >
> > I read about and changed the unit measurement in my OS>System prefs> Intn'l
> > formats> to be US which is how the PS pref is set (both in inches).
> > I have tried rotating the image.
> > Scaled is un-checked, centered is checked.
> > I'm using auto feeder (no roll paper support on this printer).
> > I've tried setting all the margins to 0 and also to 0.13 in and also to .25
> > I have not set anything on the printer's lcd menu.
> >
> > Anyone have ideas of what may be the problem & solution?
> > Other than using a RIP.
> >
> > Thanks
> > (please email)
> >
> >  
> >
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