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If you have a file that is larger than your printer supports, you can cut it up and print it out in pieces, stitching it back together later. Although do be careful around the limitations of printers, usually they can only print with a border of a certain size (like 2cm is default I think), unless you have a special unit that can print borderless.

In my opinion, if I design something that has to be printed out in real life, I find Inkscape easier to use than Gimp. Inkscape is vector based, which I find easier to work with than a raster based program and setting the PPI and such.

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Hi, I've got a problem I've tried Googleing but I'm still not sure 😅. Im printing some blueprints for a guitar body and I've got them sized in gimp to inches I think is the measurement. It's bigger than an a3 sheet so is it possible to print it to the correct size but split it over like 6 a3 sheets? So I'd end up with an actual size almost jigsaw puzzle of a guitar? Thanks, I hope I make sense 😂. 

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If you have a file that is larger than your printer supports, you can cut it up and print it out in pieces, stitching it back together later. Although do be careful around the limitations of printers, usually they can only print with a border of a certain size (like 2cm is default I think), unless you have a special unit that can print borderless.

In my opinion, if I design something that has to be printed out in real life, I find Inkscape easier to use than Gimp. Inkscape is vector based, which I find easier to work with than a raster based program and setting the PPI and such.

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When I need to print at work for scale, I have ruler I use, set the printer to actual size, print then adjust from there comparing each print to an actual ruler. Once I have that setting note it and use it for future use.

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9 hours ago, minibois said:

If you have a file that is larger than your printer supports, you can cut it up and print it out in pieces, stitching it back together later. Although do be careful around the limitations of printers, usually they can only print with a border of a certain size (like 2cm is default I think), unless you have a special unit that can print borderless.

In my opinion, if I design something that has to be printed out in real life, I find Inkscape easier to use than Gimp. Inkscape is vector based, which I find easier to work with than a raster based program and setting the PPI and such.

Thanks! I'll go try inkscape now. I didn't think abt the border thing as well. 

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3 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

When I need to print at work for scale, I have ruler I use, set the printer to actual size, print then adjust from there comparing each print to an actual ruler. Once I have that setting note it and use it for future use.

Nice thanks for that, didn't think abt this before I'll give this a go as well

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