How do I print onto 4 sheets?

**michaelward** · 27 June 2006, 05:15 PM

Don't forget to look at your printer options - some printers (mine is a Canon i850) have this sort of option built in to the printer driver itself. It's an option worth checking before going through any lengthier procedures.

**stlewis** · 27 June 2006, 08:14 PM

Another option: Proposter.

http://www.ronyasoft.com/products/proposter/index.html

**shiphen** · 28 June 2006, 08:25 AM

Have any of you guys actually tried Proposter (with Xara Xtreme / WindowsXP)

Do we have to save the Xara output as an image (e.g. GIF?) and then
print it using Proposter?

Ship
Shiperton Henthe

**stlewis** · 28 June 2006, 10:27 AM

Ship

I have it - and use it occasionally.

You do have to export eg to jpg. Make sure you size it large before you export. You can also copy and paste from Xtreme but the quality is not so good.

It works fine - cutting and glueing the paper is the hard bit.

**pauland** · 28 June 2006, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by shiphen

Have any of you guys actually tried Proposter (with Xara Xtreme / WindowsXP)

Do we have to save the Xara output as an image (e.g. GIF?) and then
print it using Proposter?

Ship
Shiperton Henthe

Ship, there's a free trial so why not give it a go yourself?

My HP printer will build tiles as part of the printer driver, so it can do this without extra software.

Paul

**Craig1128** · 28 June 2006, 03:48 PM

for a free alternative for printing posters, you might try Posteriza... http://www.posteriza.com/es/index.php?lang=en_US
You can look at the screenshots to see if this program will help...

**shiphen** · 28 June 2006, 05:04 PM

Hmm... Posteriza looks promising - though I have now tried and in fact already bought ProPoster.

ProPoster is a bit basic but seems to work.
- It doesnt let you close a file you've opened
- (And thus it's difficult to tell whether or not you've uploaded a new version of a file)
- You can cut and paste out of Xara but it simply pastes in a low-resolution bitmap - and is thus garbage! So I export as a high resolution GIF (e.g. 8000 pixel wide) and open that.

Help is incredibly basic and NOT very helpful.

Certain things dont work very well on my printer (HP Color LaserJet 3500) - the printing of the "print cut lines".

Ship
Shiperton Henethe