poster printing with powerpoint

[Guest]

Hi
We use powerpoint 2002 to print posters up to A0 size. We have recently had a issue whereby a poster which prints fine on an standard A4 printer will have large blank area's when printed in AO, with lots of the text and graphics missing. Has anyone ever come across this, and if so, is there a workaround

Thankyou for your time.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Liam,

I'd look for a more up to date printer driver for your A0 printer.

Then I'd try looking through the printer options (properties)...for different settings that may get around the problem.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Bill Dilworth]

There are two things I can think of that would cause this or something like
this to happen.

1) The print drivers have been changed/corrupted/lost. I'd try
re-installing my local printer. It's easy, and a good place to start.

2) If you are not using a local printer, perhaps your network trashed the
print file in transit. PowerPoint simply does not play well with some
networks.


If the first doesn't fix it and the second doesn't describe it, then I would
do some trouble shooting techniques to find out the source.
1) Did it ever work?
2) What changed since it worked?
3) Was anything installed since it worked?
4) Has anything been un-installed?



But, then we get to the larger question. Why not use a print graphics
program to do the posters? Don't get me wrong, I love the ease of
PowerPoint and design in PowerPoint, but printing is just not it's best
feature.

Post back if reinstalling the printer does not solve the problem.

Bill Dilworth, MS PPT MVP

Hi,
We use powerpoint 2002 to print posters up to A0 size. We have recently

had a issue whereby a poster which prints fine on an standard A4 printer
will have large blank area's when printed in AO, with lots of the text and
graphics missing. Has anyone ever come across this, and if so, is there a
workaround ?

 

[Guest]

Hi Bill
Thankyou for your reply. I was pretty sure the printer driver and settings were ok as 20 other similar posters were printed at the same time. I eventually found that on the images in the poster, if you clicked on FORMAT, ORDER and select BRING TO FRONT, this resolved the issue. The reason we use powerpoint for posters is simply that it is the most widely available here in the university where I work. For some reason Publisher is not a part of the Microsoft license we have here in College. We generally find it works quite well, as it has be ability to scale up to A0 from A4 for example when "scale to fit" is selected in the printer properties. Thanks again for your help

Liam

----- Bill Dilworth wrote: ----

There are two things I can think of that would cause this or something lik
this to happen

1) The print drivers have been changed/corrupted/lost. I'd tr
re-installing my local printer. It's easy, and a good place to start

2) If you are not using a local printer, perhaps your network trashed th
print file in transit. PowerPoint simply does not play well with som
networks


If the first doesn't fix it and the second doesn't describe it, then I woul
do some trouble shooting techniques to find out the source
1) Did it ever work
2) What changed since it worked
3) Was anything installed since it worked
4) Has anything been un-installed



But, then we get to the larger question. Why not use a print graphic
program to do the posters? Don't get me wrong, I love the ease o
PowerPoint and design in PowerPoint, but printing is just not it's bes
feature

Post back if reinstalling the printer does not solve the problem

Bill Dilworth, MS PPT MV

Hi
We use powerpoint 2002 to print posters up to A0 size. We have recentl

had a issue whereby a poster which prints fine on an standard A4 printe
will have large blank area's when printed in AO, with lots of the text an
graphics missing. Has anyone ever come across this, and if so, is there
workaround