Epson Stylus Color 3000 Product Support Bulletin page 43

* - These applications allow for tiling of print pages, therefore allowing you to print beyond the printers maximum page length limit
and print to the applications limits. The printer driver must be set for Roll Paper (Banner) mode so that page breaks at the printer's
maximum page length do not occur (in essence gives you a 0 margin for the bottom of the page). The Stylus Pro 5000/5500
however will give a slight page break at the 44 inch limit as these printers do not support banner mode. Also, printing certain
elements from these applications may not utilize color management correctly/properly and may produce output color that is not
expected.
NOTE 1:
a. Under Win 9x/Me, the PPD limit is 129 inches.
b. Under Windows NT, 2000 and XP, the PPD limit is 1771.6 inches (SP7000/9000 Series) and 1800 inches
(SP10000 Series).
c. Under Mac OS 8.x/9.x, the PPD limit is 273.06 inches.
NOTE 2:
Adobe Photoshop has a pixel limitation of 30,000 pixels, which means a document created @ 300ppi can only reach
a maximum page size of 100 inches (H and V). When sending jobs to the printer via the standard non-PostScript print
driver, Photoshop looks at the input resolution of the printer driver and adjusts the page size accordingly. All Epson
large format printers use 360dpi as the input resolution (this is the resolution data is rasterized at), therefore when
printing from Photoshop, the maximum page length you will be able to output to any Epson large format printer using
the standard print driver would be 83.33 inches (30,000 pixels / 360dpi). As for the Epson desktop products, they
rasterize data at 720dpi, therefore the maximum page length obtainable with the standard print driver would be 41.67
inches (30,000 pixels / 360dpi).
Also, under Photoshop 5.x/6.x for the Macintosh and Photoshop 6.x for the PC, the job will end up clipped if it is over
the 83.3 inch printer page limit. If you are using Photoshop 5.x for the PC, the print job will actually be truncated to fit
within the printable area of the printer. Be advised that you may not get a page size error. It may be useful to enable
the "print preview' function of your printer driver (if available) so that you do not waste unnecessary media.
The only options for printing beyond the limitations is to save the file and print via an application that does not have
the 30,000 pixel limit (may lose color management functions) or print the file through a PostScript RIP (which will
allow for longer pages).
The following examples are how to setup banner printing from Adobe Illustrator 8.01 and CorelDRAW 9 from the PC
platform. The Macintosh versions of these applications should be very similar in function. Please refer to your
software documentation for additional assistance.
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