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I was standing in line at OfficeMax and saw a big printer.
They advertised rates to print a poster. The big one (6 x
3
feet) was almost $100! What?! I guess you need fancy
big
paper and the fancy big printer and buckets of ink. But
there must be a cheaper way.
The BUNGCO Poster Printer
software uses that big piece
of
paper, but prefolded up accordion style. The software
breaks the image into 8 inch strips. The giant paper -
very long but 8 inches wide - goes thru and comes out
with
one strip printed. Then you unfold to the next (labeled!)
blank strip, and run it thru again. A poster of any width
can be printed provided someone stands by and changes
the
folds appropriately.
But the ink - color ink is spendy. Built into the BUNGCO
poster printer is the option to change solid filled shapes
into the same shape filled with colored dots, hearts,
skulls,
logos or what-have-you, sunday funnies style. Or
eliminate
the fill entirely and convert the shape to the outline in
the
requisite color - then recruit an artist to fill in the shapes
with crayons, paint or other cheap pigment.
Online service
http://www.blockposters.com/
[pocmloc, Nov 16 2011]
[link]
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Much better than those old huge-font banners printed
on continuous feed paper. [+]. |
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It's good, but not dot matrix banner good. |
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Tip: if you paste a picture into an Excel spreadsheet and resize it to make it really, really big and then print out the spreadsheet, the picture will be nicely printed out over dozens of sheets of normal printer paper. |
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Many image viewing softwares will do this, at the print stage just choose scale:1000%, print on adjoining sheets. |
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The idea was for this to be seamless rather than
many sheets - although of course the folds would be
a seam. It would be nice to have software that
would show you where the seams would fall in the
picture - probably no big deal for "CONGRATULATIONS
SID!" but maybe a bigger deal for a very text heavy
poster. |
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