A lot of the plans I’ve found are already in the big sheets and not tiled out to print on a normal office printer and even when I try printing the tiled versions a lot of the time it doesn’t match up perfectly so does anyone know where I could maybe print out the full sized versions?
Help with printing plans
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Mr Man
Mr SPEED!
I use Adobe Reader (the free version) to tile all of the plans, If you still want full size plans, Staples will print them off.(Although it's a bit pricey)
If you're in the US then Staples or Office Depot will print plans full size. Use their lowest price service - blue print was the least expensive the last time I had some printed. Make sure to leave a measurement legend on the plans so you can check the scale of what they print. Most of the PDF readers will have an option to tile larger pages just make sure that you have 'actual size' checked on not 'fit to margin' or 'fit to page' selected. Mine might still be 1/16" or so off but in foam board measurements that is approaching zero!
Andrew
G'day Mate
Every home printer I've used in the last 20 years has "print preferences" in that section there is settings for "poster" , I can make it smaller, bigger, with cut lines, or without, print preview to see how many pages, landscape or portrait.
I don't hear about many people doing it this way, not sure why, for me it's easy and straightforward.
I know what you mean, my printer doesn't line things up perfectly either.
Perfect is not necessary, just make as close as you can. We are building planes with foamboard after all.
Mr Man
Mr SPEED!
Yep, same here.
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