Epson STYLUS PHOTO R2400, STYLUS PRO 4800, STYLUS PRO 7800, STYLUS PRO 9800 User Manual

EEE-ESP-06-001-A

Support Paper

containing:

Epson How To Guides

Epson Support Bulletins

Please visit the European Epson Support at:

http://esupport.epson-europe.com

Support Paper

Doc-ID: EEE-TP-TG-06-009 Rev. A • 10/03/2006

How To Guide

Model: Epson PageProofer EX

Subject: Printing with Epson PageProofer EX a XXL banner

In this How to Guide we will show you how to print with the application Epson PageProofer
EX a large banner. In our example we are going to print a banner of 2 ½ m, but you can print
banners up to 15 m
use the Epson Stylus Pro 7800/9800 or Epson Stylus Photo R2400. We took the screenshots
from the Mac version, but Windows will look and work similar.

Description:

Like other imaging applications Epson PageProofer EX has some limitations regarding the
image size you can import:

The number of pixels per line must be more than 250 but less than 25.000.

The number of total pixels must be more than 62.500 but less than 64.000.000.

1

. As printer we are using the Epson Stylus Pro 4800, but you can also

The image we are going to print exceeds the maximum allowed total pixel number!

When you multiply 21.097 x 3.969 pixels you have in
total 83.733.993 pixels. This number exceeds the
maximum allowed pixel number of 64.000.000.

The result is that we wouldn’t be able to import the
image into Epson PageProofer EX. Therefore we need to
trick a little bit:

Open the image in an image editing application and cut the image with a little bit of overlap
(the overlap will help us later to position the images without any gap to each other) into two
parts (or even more) that fall into the Epson PageProofer EX supported pixel size.

Here is our image after the cut treatment. We have now two images with less than 64.000.000
pixels. These two images we are going to import into an Epson PageProofer EX template:

1

The maximum printable banner length depends on the printer model, page size and print settings

Page :1 /6

http://esupport.epson-europe.com

So as next step we open Epson PageProofer EX and start a new file.

Go to the menu bar and choose File > New or click the New button of the icon bar.

From the appearing Choose Template window we can select any template. In our example
we selected a very basic template with one image placed on the page for the printer Stylus
Pro 4800. However at this step it does not really matter which template you select as we will
change the template parameters manually.

Support Paper

Doc-ID: EEE-TP-TG-06-009 Rev. A • 10/03/2006

Any template

Select a template and click the button Open.

The selected template will open in the main window of Epson PageProofer EX. Now you are
going to adjust the selected template manually by first changing the print settings.

Select in the print settings on the left
top of the main window your printer (i.e.

Stylus Pro 4800). Then change the
paper source to roll paper - banner (or
roll paper - borderless banner like in

this example), choose the paper size of
the media you are going to use and the
correct media type.

Note how the area of the banner paper
length changes from deactivated to
activated status once you changed the
paper source to a banner setting!

Page :2 /6

http://esupport.epson-europe.com