Software to print large banners

**Vgphoto** · 3-Mar-2011, 09:30

Greetings,

Recently i had a customer order a large banner for his gallery to show all his work in one piece. After messing about a bit i relized my conventional means of printing would not allow me to print this banner. Banner size is going to be 33 1/4 inchs tall by 192 inchs wide.

Im running an epson 9800 using adobe indesign for photograph layouts...the inherit problem with this is that the printer has a base length cap at 90 inchs. I tryed to get around this by utilizing the "tiling" system built into adobe however it left lines between each tile...even with it set to have a half inch overlap.

Anyone have any suggestions for a program to use that would allow me to print this banner off as one entire piece?

**SergeyT** · 3-Mar-2011, 09:55

Take a look at Qimage at http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/downloads.htm

**Vgphoto** · 3-Mar-2011, 10:21

i downloaded it, how can i tell if its going to print properly? i have already wasted almost 300 worth of materials.

**SergeyT** · 3-Mar-2011, 10:45

First thing which come into my mind is to use a roll of a cheapest (plain) paper (should add just a few extra $$ to what is already spent)and print just a long line (to save on ink)
Another thing is to load a piece of a cheapest(plain) paper , advance it just anough to make a ring by glueing the beginning and the end together and print a long line on it...