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  1. Open the PDF poster file with Adobe Acrobat on station 11any Mac stations.
  2. Rotate your poster 90 degree so that the poster is in portrait orientation.
  3. Go to File -> Print
  4. On the Print window, click on Page Setup
  5. Click Yes on the pop-up Page Setup dialog window.


  6. On the Page Setup window, Format for: dmc-plotter, Paper Size - Custom Paper Sizes, make sure your Paper Size is set up as shown in the image below:36 inch wide and 48 inch high. 


  7. On the Page Setup window, make sure your setup is as follows.


  8. Then click OK on the Page Setup window.
  9. If your poster does have at least 0.5 inch margins on all the four sides, on the Print window choose Page Scaling: Actual Size instead of Fit to have your poster printed at 100% scale.
  10. If your poster doesn't have any margins on all the four sides, in general choose Fit Custom Scale 98% to print the whole poster.
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  11. If for some reason the plotter is cutting off the sides of the poster and changing "Custom Scale" doesn't resolve the issue, then remove 1 inch from the height dimension in page setup and print using Fit setting: