Hi everyone,

I've been using Inkscape for a quite a while now ( over 12 months ) and I've just run into a problem that I can't seem to get round so I'd thought i'd ask to see if it's me or Inkscape.

My problem is I've created an image for silk screen printing (1:1) but the image is nearly 500mm wide.

When I try to print the image, my A4 laser only prints part and then stops - it doesn't attempt to print any more pages.

Is this normal behaviour ?? I was expecting it to try and print the image on multiple pages.

I have a freind with a plotter - will this help ??

Thanks

If you can save your full drawing into one PDF, then Posterazor can help you

I've been working long enough in this area and use the ProPoster

Easiest, free-est way:

Go to document properties and change page size to a custom 11" Height by anywhere from 5 to 8.5 inches Width. Select "show page border" and "border on top of drawing" so that you can see a box over your image. Within this box is what will print. Use the select tool to move your image over the box. This will print one portion of the image (the left, the right, the top, or the bottom, for example). Make sure your file is saved as SVG (maybe other file types will work, but not PDF). Once that is printed out, move your image over the same box to print the other sides of the image until all sides of the image are printed out. This method is quick and dirty for screen printing, as transparencies may overlap as long as you line them up. Though if you line the image up carefully, you can get non-overlapping pages.