I posted this to the GIMP group, but I'm repeating it here because I
think it's more an issue with the printer drivers than with GIMP. I'd
appreciate any advice anybody can give me.

> I'm using GIMP 2.4.6 and the Pandora plugin with Mandriva 2008.1
> Linux and an HP Officejet 6110 printer to create some panorama
> photos. But, printing a mountaintop view on US Legal-sized paper
> gives me an image that's about two inches tall. That's not what I had
> in mind at all. The printer manual says that the printer can print on
> "banner paper," essentially old-style fanfold paper with the pinfeed
> strips removed. However, neither hplip or Gutenprint will let me
> print on that kind of paper. The hplip driver doesn't even offer
> "Custom" as an option for paper size, and while Gutenprint offers it,
> it won't allow me to set it to any more than 8 1/2 x 14 inches - US
> legal-size.
>
> Am I missing something here?

TJ

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:04:03 -0400, TJ <TJ@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>> I'm using GIMP 2.4.6 and the Pandora plugin with Mandriva 2008.1
>> Linux and an HP Officejet 6110 printer to create some panorama
>> photos. But, printing a mountaintop view on US Legal-sized paper
>> gives me an image that's about two inches tall. That's not what I had

Whatever the maximum page length the driver allows, is the maximum image
size you should try to print. If you try to print a longer image, the
printer will auto scale the image down, to whatever size pager it has
been set to print on. Unless the printer supports borderless (lengthwise)
printing, I expect you'll have to limit the images to about 13 inches,
and then use old fashion cut & paste (tape), to put the pages together.

The program poster (from the rpm package poster), may be helpfull, in
splitting up a large image, into multiple pages.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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