07-25-2021, 05:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2021, 06:00 PM by rich2005.
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Printing from Gimp can be fraught... I once had a Canon inkjet that in theory printed from roll paper - great for panoramas - except there must have been a print buffer somewhere that ran out and truncated the print after about 14 inches.
However, assuming your printer will print 19 inches long in portrait mode.
I would be inclined not to scale the image but adjust the printing resolution. Something like this.
The image print properties Image -> Print size as your image 3000 x 4000 px @ 300 ppi
Then in File -> Print the page setup and from there the custom paper size. (My current printer goes nowhere near 19")
Then in the next tab, Image settings, Change the resolution to suit, set the margins as required, enable Ignore Page margins.
An alternative is not use Gimp for printing, maybe use LibreOffice.
edit: Just out of interest, which printer is it ? Can you use it with the gutenprint plugin ?
However, assuming your printer will print 19 inches long in portrait mode.
I would be inclined not to scale the image but adjust the printing resolution. Something like this.
The image print properties Image -> Print size as your image 3000 x 4000 px @ 300 ppi
Then in File -> Print the page setup and from there the custom paper size. (My current printer goes nowhere near 19")
Then in the next tab, Image settings, Change the resolution to suit, set the margins as required, enable Ignore Page margins.
An alternative is not use Gimp for printing, maybe use LibreOffice.
edit: Just out of interest, which printer is it ? Can you use it with the gutenprint plugin ?