How to print an image over several sheets of paper

I want to print a single image that will ultimately be almost 2 metres high, and it's perfectly all right for me to do so by printing several A3 sheets of paper and gluing them onto a big piece of cardboard. How should I go about this? (I'm on Windows XP.)

Smashery

Posted 2009-09-10T03:47:33.023

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Poster Printer works with your existing printer to allow you to print documents at a much larger size than would fit on a single printed page

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(open source, Windows)

Molly7244

Posted 2009-09-10T03:47:33.023

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I guess this software is outdated - the installator crashes during the process.

– Tomáš Zato - Reinstate Monica – 2014-09-08T09:38:34.177

Thanks! However, it keeps failing with "The Printer returned an error" and it will not let me print anything. Have you come across that before? – Smashery – 2009-09-10T04:09:56.130

nope, works fine for me whenever i print a banner. – None – 2009-09-10T04:18:45.690

I think it was that it was a network printer. I ended up just printing to PDF using CutePDF and then printing from that. Works great, thanks! – Smashery – 2009-09-10T04:28:27.713

you're more than welcome. – None – 2009-09-11T02:45:00.103

I didn't try anything funky other than running the .exe as admin, but this wouldn't install on Windows 7. – Gordon Gustafson – 2013-04-03T23:14:09.707

PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. PosteRazor is open source and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

las3rjock

Posted 2009-09-10T03:47:33.023

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Aparently, they have updated it - I had no problems with my PNG file. – Tomáš Zato - Reinstate Monica – 2014-09-08T09:50:53.407

+1 This worked pretty well on Windows 7, although it didn't like my PNG so I had to convert it to JPEG first. – Gordon Gustafson – 2013-04-04T01:04:43.207

Use rasterbator http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

user10547

Posted 2009-09-10T03:47:33.023

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Also, it forces various effect on images - simple splitting is not an option. – Tomáš Zato - Reinstate Monica – 2014-09-08T09:44:09.323

Online interface is great, but is there a way to keep the original image rather than turning it into dot version? – Gordon Gustafson – 2013-04-03T23:10:41.460

LibreOffice Calc. Drag and drop your image to the Calc. Adjust page and print settings (in print preview), remove unnecessary headers, footers and etc. Print.

I also tried to do the same with Excel, but it ignores the drag and drop of an image and ignores image DPI when inserting the image from file.

mr NAE

Posted 2009-09-10T03:47:33.023

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