Printing to piece together a poster with a HP C3180

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After Kinko's turned me down because of copyrights, I'm going to try and print the poster I want myself. I have a HP PhotoSmart C6180, which is advertised as a photo printer, so it should be alright. But I have a few questions.

1) Does what paper I use matter? Obviously I don't want to use plain paper, but will the low-end "semi-gloss" photo paper be fine?
2) What program can I use to print it in pieces? Like keep its original size, but span it over many pieces of paper? Exactly what Rasterbator does. Can you have it put a lip for overlapping?
3) The C6180 can accept pictures up to 1200dpi. Should I scale my picture up to it, or would there be no difference staying at 300dpi?

That's all the questions I can think of right now. Thank you very much to anyone who can help.

EDIT: Whoops...my bad. Its actually a C6180, a few steps up from the C3180.
 
YOu should use the Rasterbator.
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

It takes an image, blows it up, and turns it into however many 8.5X11 pieces of paper you tell it to.

As for paper. Get the basic HP photo paper if you want it to be nice. (HP advanced photopaper, 'cause there are presets for it in your printer) if it's just for kicks, use real cheap brand X photo paper. Don't use plain multipurpose paper.
 
I don't want it rasterized like Rasterbator would make it, plus the image is already a high enough resolution to be printed as a poster without any scaling. I want it to keep it's size and span it across many sheets.
 
ah, I see. Well, that 6180, if I remember right (I sell em) is a great printer, uses that 02 ink system. The only problem, I don't know how to split it up by page, unless you want to go all photoshop on it.

It may be worth the cost to just take the file to kinkos.
 
It may be worth the cost to just take the file to kinkos.
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did you not read the first scentence of the post?

you cant go up in DPI of a picture.... so your stuck to printing it at whatever it is at....

you cant add pixels that dont exist and the "guessing" that it does when you do never comes out good

300dpi would be more than enough


what kinda poster are you trying to print? would it be cheaper to probly just buy the poster from somewhere??
 
Adobe indesign will do what you want. ( 'spensive though)

you could use the trial...
 
atherton213 said:
did you not read the first sentence of the post?

you cant go up in DPI of a picture.... so your stuck to printing it at whatever it is at....

you cant add pixels that dont exist and the "guessing" that it does when you do never comes out good

300dpi would be more than enough


what kinda poster are you trying to print? would it be cheaper to probably just buy the poster from somewhere??
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Yes, I read it. And yes I understand how it works. And yes, my bad for suggesting kinkos (i use 'kinkos' as a generic term, oops), I think SOME copy store will do it. It's weird that they won't copy it tho. It depends on what it is, and what you are using it for.

I will assume you are using it for a big ass poster in your own room. Under fair use, you are not making money from it, you are not selling it or claiming it as your own. You aren't altering the piece or anything like that either. Thus there seems to be no reason that they couldn't let you blow it up.
Shoot, you could even claim it was for a class, and you add the fact that it is for educational use.

Also, think about rasterbator. You just have to match the resolution of your picture to the resolution of the rasterbated image you make. For example, if it is an 800X600 image, make sure that whatever configuration of pages and dot size (in mm) is 800dots by 600dots. That may make it HUUUUGE tho. Otherwise I think that Adobe Indesign idea from 4b5eN+EE is the only way.
 
Modred189 said:
Yes, I read it. And yes I understand how it works. And yes, my bad for suggesting kinkos (i use 'kinkos' as a generic term, oops), I think SOME copy store will do it. It's weird that they won't copy it tho. It depends on what it is, and what you are using it for.

I will assume you are using it for a big ass poster in your own room. Under fair use, you are not making money from it, you are not selling it or claiming it as your own. You aren't altering the piece or anything like that either. Thus there seems to be no reason that they couldn't let you blow it up.
Shoot, you could even claim it was for a class, and you add the fact that it is for educational use.

Also, think about rasterbator. You just have to match the resolution of your picture to the resolution of the rasterbated image you make. For example, if it is an 800X600 image, make sure that whatever configuration of pages and dot size (in mm) is 800dots by 600dots. That may make it HUUUUGE tho. Otherwise I think that Adobe Indesign idea from 4b5eN+EE is the only way.
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i think the reason they dont let you blow it up or even print it is because you can prove that your not going to sell it

lots of places seem to do that, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart... all the places with that little kodak photocenter thing... they dont let you make prints of copyrighted stuff without permision...

i think they are just covering there ass.... i mean if i went in and was like "its for my room i swear" and then 10 minutes later im outside selling posters.... kinkos(or places alike) could get in trouble for making the copy



OP what are you trying to print?
 
atherton213 said:
i think the reason they dont let you blow it up or even print it is because you can prove that your not going to sell it

lots of places seem to do that, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart... all the places with that little kodak photocenter thing... they dont let you make prints of copyrighted stuff without permision...

i think they are just covering there ass.... i mean if i went in and was like "its for my room i swear" and then 10 minutes later im outside selling posters.... kinkos(or places alike) could get in trouble for making the copy

OP what are you trying to print?
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...which I think is a shame.

Anyway, the other question is, OP, how big do you want it?
 
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