Support Sunday: Use A Home Printer To Make Posters From Photos

If you need to print a poster size image for a party or event but don’t want the hassle of going to the printers or the cost, then here is a nifty idea. I stumbled onto some software called Easy Poster Printer. I will guide you through using here.

Simply, it allows you to take an image and divide it up in to equal blocks. Then when you print it on you home printer, you get each block printed out separately. Once you have it all printed, then just piece it together again. The process is called rasterbation.

With Easy Poster Printer you can…

• Make posters of any size (max 20×20 meters) using a regular printer (A4 for example).
• Save your poster and share it with others.
• Print or Preview any page at any time.
• Load, Clear, Rotate or Flip the poster image on the fly.
• Define your poster size in Millimeters, Centimeters, Inch or even pages.
• Adjust the poster size using build-in snap algorithms for up or down size.
• See your posters as thumbnails in Windows Explorer (Vista or later only).
• Save your own custom formats for easier reproduction.
• Make high quality posters from regular images (super resample algorithm) (150-600 DPI)
• Use Drag n Drop for both data-files and image-files.
• Change background color
• Copy and Paste images directly into the poster

How To Use It

Everything works from this simple sidebar on the left. You choose the Poster Image… button and this brings up your file browser. Choose an image to play with.

You probably need to click the stretch image check box. I did in all my trials but it depends on your image obviously.

Under dimensions, you can decide exactly how the image is cut up. I flicked to the unit: pages and tried out 3×3. So my image will print on 9 A4 sheets of paper.

The next two options are straight forward and personal choices.

Then quality is do with the final print quality. Normally I guess, 300 dpi is enough. Its default it 150 dpi.

Then print your poster.

That’s pretty much it. Except you may have notice that when you select your image and it loads into the software, the quality looks poor. This isn’t the final print quality, but rather it’s the screen quality. I actually don’t understand why its defaulted to low rendering but I assume it’s to do with the possibility of some users not having a decent graphics card. Anyway, to fix this, just go to Options > Screen Render Quality and choose high.

Head over to GD Software and download a copy of Easy Poster Printer which is freeware.