I haven't tried it yet. I was waiting to see if you had success. BF
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Darcy James Argue > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Finale] 12x18 printing on Ricoh AP2610 > > > Hi all, > > Has anyone had any success getting this to work? 12x18 is not > officially supported by this printer -- the official max is 12x17. You > are also required to program the bypass tray size on the printer > itself, so that's the largest paper size it will accept -- 12x17. > > However, the printer itself has no problems feeding 12x18 paper (dunno > about the duplexer, though). It's also possible to program a custom > paper size of 12x18 in the Page Setup dialog on the computer -- > however, this causes all sorts of weird cropping and alignment issues. > I got closest to success by choosing a paper size of 12x17 in the Page > Setup dialog as well. However, as you might expect, with that option > selected, telling Finale to print 2-up results in Finale scaling the > size down. > > I also tried making a 12x18 PDF and then printing that with a Page > Setup of 12x17. It gives you the "paper too large" dialog and I > selected "crop". This *almost* worked -- but it printed the far right > edge of the page as close to the edge as possible, and the last 1" of > the far left edge was in fact cut off, as I thought it might be. Damn, > so close! > > If I was printing an oversize score in Portrait orientation, with 1" > margins all around (actually 1.17" margins), that should work, but for > parts booklets, it's no good. > > One thing that I haven't tried yet, but that ought to work, would be to > print the left-side pages of a 9x12 2-up, then turn the printer around > and print the right-side pages. That's an awful lot of manual > fiddling, though, and for booklets my brain might explode -- (even if > Jari's booklet plugin was available for OS X). > > How about the rest of you Ricoh owners out there? Any luck with 12x18 > paper? > > - Darcy > > ----- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brooklyn NY > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
