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How to Print Large Image Across two A4 pages
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10 hours ago
Is it possible using Gimp to print a larger image across 2 A4 pieces of paper. It must be a seamless join, with a 1/4" "crossover" to enable taping paper together.
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8 hours ago
Not an answer to your question, but You can use PosteRazor/
https://posterazor.sourceforge.io/index....ng=english
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(10 hours ago)Clueless Wrote: Is it possible using Gimp to print a larger image across 2 A4 pieces of paper. It must be a seamless join, with a 1/4" "crossover" to enable taping paper together.

No magic button in Gimp to slice the image for you, You can always make two crops of the same image with some overlap between the crops. Then you need a printer and printer driver that allows border to border printing, which could be the hard part.
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5 hours ago (This post was last modified: 5 hours ago by rich2005.)
(10 hours ago)Clueless Wrote: Is it possible using Gimp to print a larger image across 2 A4 pieces of paper. It must be a seamless join, with a 1/4" "crossover" to enable taping paper together.

Well Clueless you have to try or you never learn, although I also recommend PosteRazor and maybe print using PDF's

A big lack of information about your larger image, Gimp uses pixels and it might be large (or massive or tiny). Is it landscape or portrait orientation ?

First thing read Ofnuts discourse on pixels-per-inch https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Image-size-in-Gimp

All sorts of ways possible, from crops as Ofnuts or use selections or the following using Guides and let the printer do the scaling. 

Open the image, In Image -> Guides there are tools to add / remove guides https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-guides.html
(1) Use New Guide (by Percent) and add a 52% (or more) Vertical guide.
(2) Image -> Slice using Guides makes two new images.
(3) You only need the left side.

   

(4) Start again with original image, this time with a 48% guide.
(5) This time keep the right side.

   

A bit about printing in Windows, which is a pita and also depends on the manufacturers setup.
(6) You fill maximum area using the x/y resolution.
(7) Adjust margins if you have borderless printing available, otherwise get the scissors out and trim after printing.

   
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