>I'm trying to print a banner. Office Depot no longer keeps banner >paper in stock, although they can order it, which tells me that >possibly the popularity of banner-making is growing cold.
You may be able to get around the lack of paper by using continuous feed paper (like for a dot matrix printer), then tear off the tractor feed sprokets from the side before using it in your printer. Office Depot should still sell that (my local one does, they were having a sale on it the other day). >I've >tried with my Canon S800 and with my HP LaserJet 1200. I don't know anything about the Canon S800, but you may not be successful doing banners in any laser printer (don't know if the canon is one or not). Most of them have page sensors to make sure a page isn't jammed, and I'm not sure that you can override their max value (usually a bit larger than whatever their largest supported size page is). No matter what the software sends to it, a laserprinter may still jam when the page continues longer than its max expected length. InkJet printers may be the way to go with this. They are usually less intelligent and so easier to override in software to confuse it into thinking it has a 36 inch long page. Of course, you may also be limited to ink jet printers that specifically support doing banners. A dot matrix printer would be even better as then you can just tell it there are no gaps between pages, and it will continue to print treating the paper correctly as one long sheet. A banner printer would be ideal :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
