How do I do a 2 pages A4 to A3 borderless tile printing seamlessly at the connection line?

[Chris P. Bacon]

It's a Canon TR 150 printer.

I have split the photo in half in Photoshop and printed out both borderless, but of course the connection line is not seemless due to the slight borderless cropping.

What is the best workaround for this?

It's not a problem if I loose a slight amount of the image on the sides, because it will be zoomed anyway, but it must be zoomed in the same amount for both pages so that the connection line will be flush.

This is for transfer for an A3 painting, so the frame boundaries are slighly smaller than A3 so that the painting can be taped on the back. 

Photoshop doesn't have a tile printig + borderless option, it's either / or, and the Canon Easy Print software for the TR 150 doesn't allow me to exclude cropping at the bottom / top of the image for the borderless printing, nor does it have tile printing.

I have used the Canon Easy Print software for printing that's at the software downloads for the TR150.

Basically the task is to print out both borderless at the same zoom ratio, with no cropping at the bottom and top, respectively.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

@Chris P. Bacon print with a purposeful overlap in the seam so you can trim out to match.

[davescm]

'...Photoshop doesn't have a tile printig + borderless option, it's either / or,...'

Actually, Photoshop has neither of those. Both are functions within the print driver.

You could try setting borderless and ensuring expansion is set to none (this is adjustable in an Epson driver, unfortunately I don't have a Canon printer here to check if that is available to you).  However, that would still be subject to variance in the paper alignment between the two prints which is why borderless is often slightly expanded.

If you can't get hold of an A3 printer, you may need to make two seams and print three A3 sheets with overlap so you can trim the A4 sheets together.

Dave

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

@davescm while there is no automated tiling you can manually tile the two prints using the print preview screen and the Position settings to manually adjust the print. Change the Height and Width to adjust X and Y.

[davescm]

@Kevin Stohlmeyer I realise you can position the print in the Photoshop dialogue, but the OP talked about his option being borderless or tiling which the way it appears in the print driver.  In the Epson driver for my P5000 choosing borderless greys out the settings for what Epson call 'Multi-Page' which is effectively a tiling function.

The best option is an A3 (or larger) printer.

Next best is tiling with an overlap as you stated in your first reply and is easily set up using the dialogue you show.  But to get an A3 print from overlapped A4 sheets will require 3 sheets and therefore two seams.

The riskiest is two A4 sheets printed borderless with no bleed outside the paper, then butted together. That is available in the Epson driver but I don't know whether it is in the Canon. It also needs a perfect paper feed or a white edge can show and a fine edge be missed off on the opposite edge.

Dave

[Chris P. Bacon]

This is still not enough, because it's about paintings, so I can't just print whatever size and then find a frame for it, I need to print on specified size.

So simply put, without any complications I made before: automatic tile printing on predefined size? Does it exist?

And of course the point is not automatic printing but automatic tiling, once you have the tiled pdf, you don't need any automatic tile printing function in the printer.

So this is more a software question than a printer question.

I forgot to mention previously that I need to print on exact size.

I don't know it's just weird, of all the fancy graphical software, including Canon's and Adobe's, Irfan View, a stone age app was the only that allowed me to print on predefined physical size.

Isn't this just weird?

But it does support tile printing too, but I need both simultaneously, if not automatically: tile printing on predefined size.

When the final format is not an A format, but for example 40 x 34 cm, then I can't just split an A4 into 2 with the same aspect ration and just print both and assemple an A3.

When I go bigger I just pick a bigger frame and then I need to print that whatever size.

Because I am transfering digital into paper before painting.

The prints are only for the transfer.

For 40x34 cm final print tile printed on A4, what I did is that I splitted the image in 4 equal parts, and then I printed with Irfan View, using the print size function, defining the final print size divided with 4, for each tile image.

But now I want to do bigger frames, for the same 40 x 34 aspect ratio.

Now the plan is to use Photoshop's "divide slice" function, split the image into 6 equal parts (they don't need to be equal for that matter), then divide the final print dimension into 6 equal parts, and print using "physical print size" in Irfan View, in inches or mm.

But doing like this is difficult to estimate what will fit on an A4, maybe in fact, if the shapes are not rectangular, you can puzzle it out from only 5 A4 pages.

So anyhting Adobe has to say about this, why in this AI world can't you just input the final print dimensions in some software, then define the paper size, and then hit tile print so that all would be automatically tiled up and printed, obviously, with the least possible amount of paper.

I even installed Canon's Poster Artist, and couldn't do the job.

Is there any imposition software that can do this faster?

Because I'll have create paintings of very different aspect ratios, so this will get me stick to the calculator, and one mistake and then the image will not fit seamlessly.