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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
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. |
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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 |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
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. -- mick |
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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
- Ed Cryer wrote:
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. I should have been more clear. The problem is _printing_ to a size which is larger than a sheet of paper. It's a math problem. Not a design problem. I don't know how to print 12x18 scale to multiple sheets of 8.5x11 paper? Do you? |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
Eco Clean wrote:
The problem is_printing_ to a size which is larger than a sheet of paper. It's a math problem. Not a design problem. I don't know how to print 12x18 scale to multiple sheets of 8.5x11 paper? search for "poster printing software" |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On 01/13/2018 09:50 AM, Eco Clean wrote:
- Ed Cryer wrote: 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. I should have been more clear. The problem is _printing_ to a size which is larger than a sheet of paper. It's a math problem. Not a design problem. I don't know how to print 12x18 scale to multiple sheets of 8.5x11 paper? Do you? Gererate your image for the larger paper size. Then print it and allow the printer driver to tile it. For my printer this is called "Poster" in the print dialog. Then tape the pages together, trimming the overlap. |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
- joe wrote:
Gererate your image for the larger paper size. Then print it and allow the printer driver to tile it. For my printer this is called "Poster" in the print dialog. Then tape the pages together, trimming the overlap. The margins screw everything up last I tried "tiling". There's a technique, where maybe the PPI suggestion is what I missed? |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
In article , Eco Clean
wrote: The margins screw everything up last I tried "tiling". not with full bleed. or better yet, have a print shop do it. |
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