To print large map, poster or advertising poster, it is not at all necessary to look for a professional plotter. You can print a poster of any size at a copy center or yourself, even without downloading special software. All you need is an image, a standard printer and a computer.
Preparing an image for printing
- Choosing the right one drawing for a poster. The final print result largely depends on the quality and resolution of the image, so you need to approach the preparatory stage carefully. Since the image is split into several sheets, the clarity of the lines may be distorted, which means you should give preference to pictures with maximum resolution.
- We select Printer. You can print a poster on any modern device, but some printer models are more convenient. To perfectly align sheets end to end, you need a borderless printout, and not all models have this feature. Therefore, trimming has to be done, which reduces the size of the poster.
- Seal Borderless can be set in the special printer settings. If there is none, then you can select the “Cut lines in the margins” option. It will highlight the part of the sheet that can be trimmed. By the way, this option allows you to overlap individual sheets and glue them into one, which is very convenient.
Method No. 1: Printing a poster on a printer
This method is the simplest, as it involves changing the settings in the printer itself:
- Open the document with the image and click “Print”.
- Select the “Properties” category and the “Page” section.
- Then go to the “Layout” tab and select the “Print Poster” function.
- We choose the most suitable option for dividing the poster into sheets, for example, 2x2, 3x3, etc.
This printing option does not require special computer programs. However, this method is not always suitable, since some modifications of printers do not have the ability to print posters.
Method #2: Print a poster using Paint
The standard Paint program is included in every Windows OS, so this printing method is suitable in any situation, even when it is impossible to change the printer properties.
- Open the image in Paint.
- We follow the algorithm “File” - “Print” - “Page Options”.
- We set the parameters of the printed pages - portrait or landscape.
- Select the “Fit” option and indicate the number of sheets that will make up the finished poster. For example, 2x2 or 3x3.
- Use the preview function to make sure you have done everything correctly and start printing.
This way can be called universal and the fastest, since you don’t have to understand the printer settings, and the Paint program is always at hand.
Method #3: Printing using Excel
This is another universal methodology print the poster on A4 sheets. What does this have to do with working in a spreadsheet.
- Create a blank Excel document and immediately go to the “Insert” tab.
- Click on the “Picture” option and select an image to print the poster.
- Go to the “View” section and click on “Page Layout”. We begin to stretch the drawing horizontally and vertically so that it extends beyond the markers.
- For ease of use, you can reduce the image scale using the option in the lower corner of the page.
- In the “Print” section, you can select the sheet format (book or album) and set the margin size.
- Check the image using the preview function before printing.
These are the most common and convenient ways Printing posters on a regular printer. They can be used to create posters, maps and images of any size.
Instructions
Start by turning on and preparing the printer for printing. Make sure there is enough paper in the input tray, the machine is connected to the computer, and the toner is loaded.
Take advantage of the opportunities contained in software the printer itself is the easiest way to print image, which does not fit on one sheet. It does not require the use of additional software - the automatic separation function is included in the drivers of most modern printing devices. To use it, for example, in the Windows 7 operating system, start by launching the standard file manager - Explorer. Press the Win + E key combination, and when the application starts, use the directory tree to navigate to the folder where the desired image file is stored.
Select the picture, and then call the print dialog. This can be done by clicking on the “Print” inscription at the top of the Explorer window, or you can right-click the file and select the “Print” line in the pop-up context menu. This will open a window with the title “Print Images”.
In the drop-down list under “Printer”, select the desired print device. In the "Paper Size" field, set the size of the sheets to use, and then click the "Options" link in the lower right corner of the window. In the additional dialog that appears, you need to click “Printer Properties” - it launches the driver for this peripheral device.
Depending on the type of printer you are using, the print settings window may look different and the setting you need may be labeled differently. For example, in the Canon driver, you need to open the “Page Layout” drop-down list and select the appropriate line in it - “Poster 2x2”, “Poster 3x3” or “Poster 4x4”. And in the Xerox printer’s print settings panel, this setting is placed in a drop-down list labeled “Page Layout”. Choose the option of placing a large image on four, nine or sixteen sheets, based on the size of the picture.
Click the OK button in the device driver panel, then the same button in open dialogue print settings and, finally, the “Print” button in the main window for sending the image to the printer. After this, the image will begin printing, during which you will see a corresponding information message on the screen.
Sometimes situations arise when you need large formats of photographs that cannot be printed on a regular printer in standard mode. You can set up printing so that the photo is printed piece by piece.
You will need
- - Printer;
- - paper.
Instructions
Run the program to print the image in parts. Ideal for these purposes Adobe Photoshop However, not everyone has it. Any program that allows you to print part of an image will do. Open the file you want to print. Go to the print settings by going to the File menu and selecting Print with preview. Set the paper size by clicking on the Page Setup button - there you can also adjust the image margins.
You can print on either plain paper or . Also, do not forget that a lot depends on the type of printer. There are printers that are capable of printing large formats, while others are only capable of printing A4 paper. However, the prices for plotters are very high, so purchase
Here, as in that joke, we have several options. First, let's understand that a picture (or other information) that needs to be printed on several sheets is called a poster. The simplest and most universal way to print a picture onto several sheets is to use a spreadsheet editor. Its main advantage is the ability to print a poster in any case, using any number of sheets; The disadvantage is that it takes a little more time than when printing a poster using the printer options. Printing a poster using the printer interface takes much less time, however, not all programs for printers include such an option. Therefore, you have to use the first method. So, let's look at the options for the first method of printing a poster, i.e. using editors in the two most common operating systems: Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS. 1. In the Microsoft Windows operating system, the most universal way to print a poster is to place our picture in the MS Excel editor. The algorithm of actions is as follows: Start->All Programs->Microsoft Office->Microsoft Excel; in the menu, select Insert->Picture (->From file), after which the “Insert Picture” window opens, where we find our picture and click the “Insert” button; File->Page Options (Page Layout->Page Options)->"Page" tab - go to the direct selection of the orientation of the poster sheets in the "Orientation" field (landscape or portrait), their number in width and height in the "Scale" field - > "number of sheets:"; go to the document window with the drawing, enlarge our drawing to the required number of sheets. The "Preview" option (File->Preview or File->Print) allows you to see exactly how the picture will be placed. When we are satisfied with the result, feel free to click on “Print” and print our poster. We carefully cut the result where necessary and glue it together. 2. In the operating room Apple system Mac OS similar manipulations can be done using the Calc editor from OpenOffice. The actions in this editor are almost the same as those in the MS Excel editor. That is, we open the Calc editor, set the parameters of our poster through the Format->Page menu... select the “Sheet” tab, look at the “Scale” option at the bottom, where we are interested in selecting the “Fit print range to the number of pages” property in the “Scaling mode” " on the left, as well as selecting the number of pages in the "Number of pages" property on the right. Now we insert our picture by selecting Insert->Image->From File... in the top menu, expand its dimensions to the required ones with control in the “Preview” (in the “File” menu), after which we safely print. Let's look at software for printers from the most popular companies Epson and Canon. Since their interfaces are most typical for all modifications of the Epson line, as well as Canon, it is easy to build general algorithms of actions. 3. The printing program for Epson printers has the following interface and procedure for printing a poster consisting of several sheets: “Properties” -> “Printing Settings” -> “Layout” tab; On the left, look at the “multi-page” field and put a bird there; We also put a dot in front of the “poster printing” property; using the poster sheet layout counter, select one of four options – 2x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4; When choosing poster options, look at the preview layout. 4. The printing program for Canon printers requires the following algorithm of actions: “Properties” -> “Printing Settings” -> “Page Settings” tab; “Orientation” option – allows you to select portrait or landscape type of poster sheets; the "Page Layout" option has a selection window, by clicking which we can choose one of the three options we like - poster, poster, poster; When choosing poster options, look at the preview window on the left. After confirming the changes to the printer settings, we can print our poster. I hope this explanation helped you, and in the future printing any poster on several sheets will not be difficult for you. Good luck!
I work as a teacher. Therefore, a large format image is often required for clarity and design. well, at home under New Year You can decorate it like in this photo. This Santa Claus was printed on a regular A4 sheet printer. I’ll tell you in more detail how to do this. because in our SM there is a lot creative people who may need big poster. And not everyone (like me, for example) has a special program... (I haven’t seen such a master class here, maybe I missed it - then I apologize!)
Open Microsoft Excel ----> select the "Insert" tab ----> Drawing
A dialog box opens ----> Select any picture from your files -----> Click "Insert" (I chose this clown as an example)
We see the drawing has appeared
Opening the preview
We see that our clown is small, just one sheet of paper (the arrow indicates how many pages will be printed)
close the preview window, and Oh! miracle, we see that some cells have appeared (you may not see it right away, then we reduce the scale in the lower right corner) the cells that I showed with an arrow are pages - future A4
Now we confidently pull the indicated corner, stretch it to the required number of pages
we look again, we see how many pages we get (indicated by the arrow)
And - voila! we print it out, glue it together like children’s cut-out pictures, use it... and our craftswomen will find a place to use such posters!?
As an option, you can print out the outline images, then color them yourself (fortunately, there are a lot of coloring books on the Internet!), you can do it this way. make any patterns, cards... well, in general, use it, I'm waiting for your feedback!
Hello. First of all, Happy New Year. And here is a program for printing large formats. called PosterPrinter. It installs very easily, is Russian-language, has a registration key and, most importantly, can print photos big size, up to 2-3 meters. I often use this program, although my printer only prints up to A4 size. Go to a search engine (I use Google), type the name of this program and download it for free. You download the program and install it on your computer and that’s it. Here’s the link I just found. http://www.alfapoisk.org.ua/index.p.../49-poster.html Why is it so difficult? Each printer (if it is not completely antediluvian) has a “poster printing” setting, where you can choose how many sheets the image should occupy. And it's much faster than opening Excel. Everything in Excel takes a long time, there is a simple Poster Printer program and print any size. Hello! thanks for useful information. But I don’t understand point 6. I opened the preview, saw 1 page... and then what should I do... if, as you wrote, I closed the preview and nothing happens... how can I indicate how many sheets the drawing should be printed on? Please explain the transition from point 6 to point 7... When you have uploaded your drawing, you don’t have to look at it first, because... it’s small anyway, start stretching it. And when you’ve stretched it, then look in the preview how many sheets you got. This will be indicated in the lower left corner - 1 sheet from... (how many sheets you stretch will be indicated). If you are not satisfied with whether there are many sheets or few, then close the preview and reduce or stretch the drawing again. And again in the preview, see how many sheets you have.
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Now I'll show you a universal way to print posters on a regular A4 printer. The method described here for printing large posters works great not only with Microsoft Word, but with any program that can be used to print. It’s very easy to print a poster from A4 sheets!
By the way, along with this page about printing posters from Word, the article about printing letters in A4 size is also very popular on the site. So I recommend solving two problems at once.
I also note that if you don’t have a printer at home, but still want to print a poster, printing to a .
The result of printing a poster from A4 sheets using Word
Many people have a regular printer, but wide-format plotters are, as a rule, only available in specialized printing companies. The cost of such equipment compared to a regular A4 printer is quite high, so there is no point in keeping it at home. Let's use a regular printer to print a large poster from A4 sheets.
The photo shows the result on A4 sheets. The printer is ordinary. Don’t pay attention to the typo in the picture - I just don’t want to correct it anymore :) Now I’ll show you how all this is done using the example of printing a poster with a picture from MS Word.
Note: Printer settings vary from printer to printer, but the principles remain the same! In addition, here I will show the printing of a poster using a picture as an example, but the same applies to text simply typed in Word.
The example given in this article is far from the only one.
If you want to learn how to work well in Word, then you should definitely watch video tutorials that show other ways to solve this and other problems in the most effective way.
Let's start printing a poster from A4 sheets
First of all, you need to prepare a regular Word document. I inserted a picture into it, but you could also print text. Go to the "File / Print" menu. I'm using Word with a Ribbon type menu.
First of all, choose the printer you need - the one on which you will print the poster. This is important because to convert a regular document into a poster from A4 sheets we will use the corresponding printer function. There is no need to be afraid, since almost (!) any printer has a function for printing posters. Open properties your his printer and see something like the window shown below. Of course, things may be a little different for you.
The meaning of the method I am showing for printing posters from A4 sheets is based precisely on the use of the printer’s properties, and not Word itself or another program. The fact is that in this case, the printer driver itself will divide the document into parts and enlarge them, which saves you from having to do it manually. Of all the ways to print posters at home, this is the easiest.
To print your document as a poster from A4 sheets, you need to find the item in the printer properties that is responsible for this feature. I give an example for my printer.
Once you select the poster size you want, all you need to do is save your settings and then click the print button in Word. The size of the poster is indicated in A4 sheets according to the X*Y principle. In the example given, this is a 3*3 A4 sheet poster. You can see the printing result in the very first picture.
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Features of printing posters from A4 sheets
If you are printing text that is easily scaled, then in principle you can print a poster consisting of as many A4 sheets as your printer allows.
If you are printing a picture, then its original size should be large enough. Otherwise, you risk receiving a low quality poster.
After printing your poster, you will need to take scissors and trim the printed margins to join the poster pieces (A4 sheets) together. Don't try to print borderless! As I wrote earlier in one of the previous articles, when printing without borders, you may lose part of the document - it simply will not print.
Video tutorial on printing a Word document in the form of a poster from separate A4 sheets
The simplest option for printing a large poster using the capabilities built into the printer driver is shown. The availability of this function directly depends on the printer used!
Let's sum it up
One of the main principles that guide my training courses is that The main thing is to understand the essence, and not just memorize something! If you can't do something one way, there is always another! IN in this case Instead of looking for how to print a poster in Word from A4 sheets, I suggest simply using the universal poster printing function built into the printer. This is much more efficient and allows you to print large posters on regular A4 sheets from almost any program.