Please Note:
- A 48""x36" poster in landscape orientation is used in this illustration and a 36" paper/canvas roll is loaded.
- Mac works better than PC. It is recommended that you use a Mac to print a PDF file. For instance, if your poster is 60"x30" in landscape orientation, PC doesn't allow you input a 60"x30" paper. Instead, PC insists the paper used should be bigger in the length. If you enter 60"x30" width x length for paper size, it keeps changing the paper to 30"x60" and prints out the short edge of the poster first.If you have 60" wide paper loaded, it will be a waste of paper this way. This pitfall can be easily avoided on a Mac.
- Open the PDF poster file with Adobe Acrobat on station 11.
- Rotate your poster 90 degree so that the poster is in portrait orientation.
- Go to File -> Print
- On the Print window, click on Page Setup
- Click Yes on the pop-up Page Setup dialog window.
- 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:
- On the Page Setup window, make sure your setup is as follows.
- Then click OK on the Page Setup window.
- If your poster does have at least 0.5 inch margins on all the four sides, on the Print window choose Page Scaling: None instead of Fit to Printable Area to have your poster printed at 100% scale.
- If your poster doesn't have any margins on all the four sides, choose Fit to Printable Area to print the whole poster.
- If the left side of the poster image is getting cut off during printing and scaling the print below 95% is not working, then in page setup>manage custom sizes, remove 1" from the height dimension and set to fit. See below:
