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If the image is wider than 44", you need to break it up into smaller pieces and print
all the pieces as a single job. I did it by putting vertical guides in my image at 11"
intervals and saving the chunks as separate files. Using Adobe Acrobat, I then
created a 6 page document in landscape format. I then sent the whole doument to
the printer, which had been setup with an 11" paper length, no margins, banner
mode, and save paper. The pages were output with no intervening whitespace.
Cost: I figure about $7.00 for the paper (Epson Premium Luster) and $3.00 for the
(dye) ink. I priced the job at Boston Photo & Imaging, and it would have cost about
$350 (but I could have gotten 5 prints, so the cost per print would only have been
$70.00.)
I'm very pleased with the results. The printer cost $119.00.
--Skip
Image:Indian Lake.jpg
-- Skip Gaede, May 2, 2003
Dye-Subs ARE back !
There are a new , low cost dye -subs from Sony and Canon.
I just got Canon CP-200 for 180$. It produce phot lab qualty 6X4 and even put
protective layer. cartrige of 36 cost $20-25 depending on store. Well, it is small and
only 300dpi, but ,yes looks like real photo . No dithering of ink-jets, no worry
about finger prints. cool.
I wish cost for printing be cheaper then ~60 cents as well as boosting resolution to
600 dpi and size to Letter can probbaly make it absolute winer.
So far 4X6 is what I normaly print and I use ink jet for bigger images, that is fine :
when image is big it is framed and looked from distance ( no aparent ditehirng ),
while 4X6 normaly observed closly.
-- V S, October 31, 2003
Well.. this article has been around a while but I thought I'd add a VERY worthy
inkjet printer to the listing here. Teh Canon i9900 (up to 13 x 19 full bleed) is one
fantastic printer.
I originally purchased it as a backup for emergency prints and planned on
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