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Author:  Pat Hawley [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:35 am ]
Post subject:  Cool Big Printing Program
Ever since someone posted a link to the guy that built his own band saw out of wood, I've gone back to the site once a week or so to see what he's doing next. He's a pretty innovative guy. This week he's put up a neat program that allows you to make big prints of plans by tiling together regular size paper. But the really cool thing is that you can make the print outs by starting with a picture or drawing off, say, the web, and only one dimension. The program will provide all the other dimensions for you. At this time, he is offering a trial version of the program for evaluation for free. Apparently it does everything the final version will do except that it prints "evaluation" all over everything. Really worth checking out. I can see it being very useful for sharing plans. Here's the link:

http://woodgears.ca/bigprint/index.html

Cheers,
Pat
Author:  CharlieT [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cool Big Printing Program
Pat - thanks for posting this. I can see how BigPrint could be pretty useful in several ways! [:Y:]
Author:  John Bushouse [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cool Big Printing Program
Could be very cool - what I do now is print something as big as I can on 8 1/2" x 11", measure some critical distance (bridge to 12th fret, for example), calculate how big I need to blow it up and take it to Staples.
Author:  Kim [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cool Big Printing Program
Thanks Pat, could be very handy indeed.

Cheers

Kim
Author:  Haans [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cool Big Printing Program
I just do it in Photoshop.
Author:  Andy Birko [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Cool Big Printing Program
John Bushouse wrote:
Could be very cool - what I do now is print something as big as I can on 8 1/2" x 11", measure some critical distance (bridge to 12th fret, for example), calculate how big I need to blow it up and take it to Staples.


An even better way to do this is to take the file and send it to Kinko's to be printed up. Costs a couple of bucks. Make sure you check the scale before you pay for it though just in case.
Author:  npalen [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cool Big Printing Program
Pat, that is one awesome program.
For $22? Unbelieveable!
The guy should get the Nobel "Piece" Prize!
Nelson
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