longer than A4 printing on 6L

[paul.abbott]

I'm using a HP Laserjet 6L and I'd ideally like to print on a A1 sheet
cut to the width of A4. I've tried setting the page size longer than A4
in word, and the first A4 pages worth will print out then the printer
stops and, understandably, reports a paper jam. I guess the printer
driver isn't set up to deal with paper longer than A4, is there a way
to force it to, or to over ride the paper jam sensor. thanks, Paul.

 

[Cari]

Did you try setting a custom page size?

 

[Ed Ruf (REPLY to E-MAIL IN SIG!)]

On 17 Oct 2006 07:36:42 -0700, in comp.periphs.printers

I'm using a HP Laserjet 6L and I'd ideally like to print on a A1 sheet
cut to the width of A4. I've tried setting the page size longer than A4
in word, and the first A4 pages worth will print out then the printer
stops and, understandably, reports a paper jam. I guess the printer
driver isn't set up to deal with paper longer than A4, is there a way
to force it to, or to over ride the paper jam sensor. thanks, Paul.

Laser printers are pages printers and have a fixed length they can print
to. Look in your user's manual for the spec. You can't print anything
longer than that on a single sheet. There are applications which will allow
you to print across multiple sheets, however since the laser printer can't
print full bleeds, you would have to trim the margins.

 

[paul.abbott]

thanks, yes I did set a custom paper size. I suspected what I want to
do may not be possible, or at least this printer (HP laserjet 6L) was
never designed to be used this way, but I'd be quite happy to print one
A4 sheets worth, leave the long paper in the printer and send a second
A4 sheets worth, if anybody has any ideas how i can over come the paper
jam status.

I can already fake this to some extent by printing the first sheet,
pulling the paper out of the printer, feeding it back in upside down
and printing the second image rotated, but I'd like to be able to do
more than two pages, and as you can imagine lining up the images is a
bit tricky.

It's for an continuous long image and it matters to me to have it on
one piece of paper.

Paul.

 

[Ed Ruf (REPLY to E-MAIL IN SIG!)]

On 17 Oct 2006 16:03:27 -0700, in comp.periphs.printers

thanks, yes I did set a custom paper size. I suspected what I want to
do may not be possible, or at least this printer (HP laserjet 6L) was
never designed to be used this way, but I'd be quite happy to print one
A4 sheets worth, leave the long paper in the printer and send a second
A4 sheets worth, if anybody has any ideas how i can over come the paper
jam status.

I can already fake this to some extent by printing the first sheet,
pulling the paper out of the printer, feeding it back in upside down
and printing the second image rotated, but I'd like to be able to do
more than two pages, and as you can imagine lining up the images is a
bit tricky.

It's for an continuous long image and it matters to me to have it on
one piece of paper.

As I said, not possible on a laser printer. get an ink jet.

 

[Arthur Entlich]

A1 sheets are 594mm x 841mm, or about 23" wide by 33" long. I am not
sure exactly how you were planning on cutting this page, (with the 594mm
as length, or the 841mm as length) by 210mm width (about 8.25"), but
either way, it won't work on the vast majority of laser printers.

As has been mentioned a laser printer rasterizes the full page before it
begins printing with the vast majority of them (there are a few new
printers that can print banner but they are specialized for this
application). For one thing, that requires that enough memory be in the
machine to hold the full rastered image in the memory, and most letter
size (width) laser printers are maximized to rasterize no more than C4
if you are lucky (or legal size in North America, which is 8.5 x 14").
The printer would need a larger amount of memory in it to print A4 width
or length, even if the firmware or driver allowed for it.

Inkjet printers only rasterize a few lines of information at a time,
which is why they can work with 64 kb of memory or less, they only need
to "know" a bit beyond the the line they are printing, and this give
them the ability to be fed the image information little by little. In
effect they could print an unlimited length (up to the length of the
paper) although most are restricted to 40-80 inches.

Art

 

[Tony]

thanks, yes I did set a custom paper size. I suspected what I want to
do may not be possible, or at least this printer (HP laserjet 6L) was
never designed to be used this way, but I'd be quite happy to print one
A4 sheets worth, leave the long paper in the printer and send a second
A4 sheets worth, if anybody has any ideas how i can over come the paper
jam status.

I can already fake this to some extent by printing the first sheet,
pulling the paper out of the printer, feeding it back in upside down
and printing the second image rotated, but I'd like to be able to do
more than two pages, and as you can imagine lining up the images is a
bit tricky.

It's for an continuous long image and it matters to me to have it on
one piece of paper.

Paul.

I do not believe this printer can do this, when this printer was designed it
was only able to print one page "length" at a time. Several newer Laser
printers will print banners of 36" or more using a different paper path
management process and making use of larger available of memory.
Tony

 

[me]

I do not believe this printer can do this, when this printer was designed it
was only able to print one page "length" at a time. Several newer Laser
printers will print banners of 36" or more using a different paper path
management process and making use of larger available of memory.
Tony

I think the OKIs generally go to about four feet. Could something like
fineprint be used to adjust the print job into consecutive A4 images
that could then be stitched back together.

My printer can do A3 and has an option for banner printing, where I
believe it spreads the image over four A3 sheets to give me A1, so
perhaps a similar software method could be used.

The other alternative is to take lots of cuts of the image to print out
and then stick back together manually. If you print them portrait, that
should give more space round the edges to cut the sheets to line them up
afterwards, although it does use a bit more paper.

 

[Ed Ruf (REPLY to E-MAIL IN SIG!)]

I think the OKIs generally go to about four feet. Could something like
fineprint be used to adjust the print job into consecutive A4 images
that could then be stitched back together.

My printer can do A3 and has an option for banner printing, where I
believe it spreads the image over four A3 sheets to give me A1, so
perhaps a similar software method could be used.

Qimage allows you to print posters across multiple pages in either
direction.