Registering a Custom Media Size

Printing Vertical or Horizontal Banners (Large-Format Printing; Windows)

This topic describes how to print a banner about ve times as long as the roll width based on the following example.

•Document: A horizontal banner created in Microsoft Word

•Page size: Non-standard (100×500 mm [3.9×19.7 in])

•Paper: Roll

•Paper type: Plain Paper

•Roll paper width: 16 in (406.4 mm)

Follow the steps below to print a banner in either horizontal or vertical format.

1.Register a Custom Media Size.

Banners tend to be in non-standard sizes, so register a Custom Media Size. In this example, 100×500 mm (3.9×19.7 in) is registered.

2.In the application, create an original in the size you registered.

3.Print the banner, using the settings that correspond to banners.

This example describes how to register a paper size that is horizontally elongated and suitable for banners in either horizontal or vertical format.

1. Display the printer driver dialog box. (→P.406)

3. Click Roll Paper in the L Paper Source list.

4. Click O Paper Size Options to display the Paper Size Options dialog box.

5. Enter a desired paper name in Custom Paper Size Name. “My Horizontal Banner” is used in this example.

6. In Units, click mm.

7. Under Paper Size, enter “100” in Width and “500” in Height.

8. Click Add to add the paper size of “My Horizontal Banner”.

9. Click OK to close the Paper Size Options dialog box.