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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
"nospam" wrote
| or better yet, have a print shop do it. Very helpful, as usual. "Just click the printer button, dummy." "Better yet, go to a print shop." I'm guessing your next gem of advice will be, "Try asking someone who knows." |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
In article , Mayayana
wrote: | or better yet, have a print shop do it. Very helpful, as usual. yep. "Just click the printer button, dummy." that's all it takes. it's actually a very simple task. "Better yet, go to a print shop." since the original poster has demonstrated he doesn't know what he's doing (both in this thread and in others), a print shop would be a very wise choice. not only will they understand exactly what needs to be done, but the results will be better since they will have equipment far better than anything he may have, likely including a large format printer so that it can be done in one piece. I'm guessing your next gem of advice will be, "Try asking someone who knows." you guessed right. |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
mick wrote:
On 13/01/2018 12:40:14, Ed Cryer wrote: Eco Clean wrote: Windows sign printing freeware? Does it exist? Exact example here uploads.im/YpuVv.jpg To spray paint plastic sign that are on 12 inches x 18 inches white stock. Goal is to create a life-sized cutout template on normal 8.5x11" paper. Then tape template on 12"x18" white plastic stock. Then spray paint letters of right size with red paint. If not special sign printing free software is there a trick to print a real size cutout template with a normal Windows 10 printer of multiple pages of 8.5x11 inch paper taped together by using a trick of some kind? Plan is to spray paint once I tape the life-sized paper templates over 12x18" plastic stock white boards. Have you tried any of the online sign-designers? "Design house sign" under Google gets them. I got mine here; https://www.designahousesign.com/ Cool! And weathers well. To get a print of it, I just did a screen-shot. Ed Thanks for that link Ed, you've made my day :-) I was looking yesterday for new house numbers at the local diy shed and couldn't find any I liked so gave up, never thought of looking for those sort of websites. I'm a mine of useful tips! (:- If you have a dripping tap and you're not sure of the washer size, try this - I did; https://goo.gl/YtxuS6 Ed |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On 1/12/2018 10:35 PM, Eco Clean wrote:
Windows sign printing freeware? Does it exist? Exact example here uploads.im/YpuVv.jpg To spray paint plastic sign that are on 12 inches x 18 inches white stock. Goal is to create a life-sized cutout template on normal 8.5x11" paper. Then tape template on 12"x18" white plastic stock. Then spray paint letters of right size with red paint. If not special sign printing free software is there a trick to print a real size cutout template with a normal Windows 10 printer of multiple pages of 8.5x11 inch paper taped together by using a trick of some kind? Plan is to spray paint once I tape the life-sized paper templates over 12x18" plastic stock white boards. maybe this site will help: http://www.blockposters.com/ -- Zaidy036 |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On 01/13/2018 2:06 PM, pjp wrote:
In article , am says... "Eco Clean" wrote | Anyways, I don't have Paint Shop Pro, but I have Irfanview. | You should be able to get PSP5 he http://www.oldversion.com/windows/do...-shop-pro-5-01 I just downloaded and tried starting the installer. It worked fine. I bought PSP5 for $100 many years ago. Since then I've bought PSP16. Unfortunately, the latter is bloated and clunky. Overproduced. I still use 5 for basic things. The versions online seem to be perfectly legal. In fact, at one point Jasc was giving older versions away with things like routers, before Corel bought them out. IrfanView is very good and solid but it lacks one critical thing: A work window where you can wortk on multiple images , paste layers, have multiple undo, etc. IV might be able to cut up the image, but it's worth having PSP or a similar editor. BMP is best. JPG loses data. GIF is 256 colors, so it might dither. | Maybe 100 ppi? Using that as an example, you | would then resize to 1200 x 1800 pixels. | | That's the kind of math I was seaking! | You just have to match it up to the printer. For instance, a typical photo should be printed at least 300 dpi. That means to get a 5x7 print you need 1500x2100 pixels. It doesn't matter what size the image is and what dpi the printer is set for. You just need to coordinate the two so that it will print the size you intend. 300 dpi will give you nicer edges on letters, but I guess that probably doesn't matter much. | The plan is to print to 8.5x11 paper and thentape it all together, and then | put thin sheets of clear 8.5x11 plastic sheets taped together underneath, | and then cut out the "stencil" with an Exacto knife and then spray the | signs. I use a copy of Paintshop Pro 7. Partially because well over a decade or so ago now I came in possession of a "cracked" copy you can simply copy and run, That makes it so easy to install with the only issue ever arising was a "permissions" issue after some Win version upgrade on a folder that was easily cured. I like it because it's so "clean", small footprint, fast and full featured and does what I want it to, easily. I've never found a reason to switch to anything else. I still have my original Paint Shop Pro 7 Cd and it still loads and runs fine in windows 10 Creator. It is like you say one of the best programs I ever bought, Does everything I want and then some, And no bloat in that one. Small and efficient, It was written by *Real* coders back then. Rene |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
In article , pjp
wrote: I use a copy of Paintshop Pro 7. Partially because well over a decade or so ago now I came in possession of a "cracked" copy you can simply copy and run, That makes it so easy to install with the only issue ever arising was a "permissions" issue after some Win version upgrade on a folder that was easily cured. I like it because it's so "clean", small footprint, fast and full featured and does what I want it to, easily. I've never found a reason to switch to anything else. no, you like it because you stole it and didn't have to pay for it. |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On 01/13/2018 11:34 AM, Zaidy036 wrote:
On 1/13/2018 10:50 AM, Eco Clean wrote: - Sjouke Burry wrote: Print that as deeply colored(or black) as possible. My only printer is an old HP laser jet. The printer isn't the problem because I will cut the letters out. That makes a stencil. The problem is how to print to 8.5x11 that scales up to 12x18. Not sure if this would help but use as 11 x 8.5 instead and print half on each of two papers. You would only lose 1" width and height giving 0.5" borders. If you have a photo editing program of any sort that will crop then just take your 12x18 photo and: crop the top left quadrant to 8.5x11 and print. Then crop the top right to 8.5x11 and print. etc for the 4 quadrants. They'll overlap but I think you said you didn't mind and would just tape them together. At least if I'm reading what you want to do right! |
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- Mayayana wrote:
You should be able to get PSP5 he http://www.oldversion.com/windows/do...-shop-pro-5-01 Can you help me with the next step given the BMP file: [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...064faba 60af] 1) I created the above newt.bmp from the powerpointe. 2) I installed PSP5.1 as per your link above. 3) I opened up "newt.bmp" in PSP5 4) I hanged the DPI from 72dpi to 100dpi using FilePreferencesGeneralProgramPreferencesRulersA ndUnits DefaultResolution = 100 pixels / inch 5) I resized the BMP from to 1152x1728 pixels to 1200x1800 pixels using ImageResizePixelSize=1200 [maintain aspect ratio of 0.666666666666667:1] 6) That made the "ActualPrintSize=11.520x17.280 at 100pixels/inch (Don't ask me why that is not an even number of pixels.) 7) FilePrint{choose laster printer with regular paper in it}OK This is what results. http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...a44a2679 3d03 It looks a lot bigger than it should be but maybe it's OK in size. I measured the printout to be 8 inches wide (+1/4-inch unprintable margins) so that makes the result 16 inches wide instead of 12 inches wide.????????? Besides, it's only the top left corner, and it has 1/4 inch margins on all sides because my printer does not print to the edge of the page. Why did only the top left corner print? How do I get the other 3 corners to print? And why is the size completely wrong? |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
- Eco Clean wrote:
And why is the size completely wrong? Here is a photo of what the paper looks like next to the sign blank. http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...a35c4149 1ce3 What did I do wrong in following your exact steps? |
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