I have a massive image about 980px wide and 3000+px high. I want to print this on multiple A4 sheets of paper, how can I do this?
5 Answers
Apparently this is not supported in IrfanView – there are a few standalone tools that allow for it:
Paint, bizarrely enough:
How to Easily Print a Large Image to Multiple Pages in Windows | Scottie’s Tech.Info
- Open the image you’d like to print in Paint
- Select: Print -> Page Setup (Vista and 7), or File -> Page Setup (in XP)
- Under Scaling, select Fit to and change the setting to something like “2 by 2 page(s)”
- Click OK
- Print the image from Paint, and make sure to select “All Pages”
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1Yeah, I find it a little odd that such basic functionality isn't supported on irfanview.– meiryoApr 12, 2011 at 15:07
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1Hard to believe, but this still works in 2019! Even though I usually use
IrfanView
as referenced by Tomasito below, I found that in this instancePaint
was the easiest and best option. #ProTip: To save ink, print to PDF first to see what your poster will look like. If you like the result just print it. Otherwise start over again without having wasted a ton of ink. digitalcitizen.life/… May 10, 2019 at 11:21
Irfan View not out of the box, but possible:
Go to: Options->Export Image Tiles->Set Rows and Columns
. Next you can print individual images or in Thumbnails
mode.
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Yes, this works well. I just confirmed I was able to split a long infographic into 3 by exporting as "1 x 3". Mar 31, 2016 at 0:41
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UPDATE: This method still works, but for me, the
Paint
method from Journeyman Geek works better. May 10, 2019 at 11:22 -
This should be the #1 answer. It gives you a good ability to preview the slices. When I tried the suggested approach with Paint, it did not display a proper preview so it was not very confidence inspiring. Also in paint, it opens with a default resolution and the pasted image only gets a sub-part of that, so I would have likely gotten a bunch of unwanted printed whitespace. Jan 9, 2023 at 2:17
I use Posterazor all the time. For me, it works for printing large images on different sheets of paper and has features I find useful.
(Disclaimer: I am not associated with the Posterazor product in any way.)
Check your printer driver options. Some printer/copier manufacturers include this functionality out of the box, calling it Poster mode, or some variation thereof.
An alternative solution using Irfanview: I divided the picture 'by hand' in separate files, one for every sheet. I selected the part of the picture for one separate sheet, cropped it (Irfanview menu Edit --> Crop selection (Ctrl+Y) ) and saved it as a separate file. It was cumbersome, but it gave me more control and a better end result.