9.6.3. Printing on continuous paper<br>

### 9.6.3. Printing on continuous paper

The graphical editor enables printing on continuous paper on printers that support such printing. This depends not only on the printer construction, but on the printer driver (software that controls printer operation).

! The “Continuous paper” field indicates that the continuous paper band is understood by the program (and printer driver) as a sequence of paper sheets joined together (e.g. a sequence of A4 size pages) and not as one long page. Interpretation of paper format by the program does not depend on the physical form of paper (a sequence of joined pages or continuous paper from a roll).

¨ To print on continuous papers first try to set a long page in the printer driver. Drivers of some printers enable specifying user paper size and long pages for this paper size (e.g. 5 m). To do this:

1. Select the “Print” tab.

2. Select the required printer in the first field of the data table.

3. Click on the button with three dots on the right side of the second field.

4. Printer settings window is displayed. Its appearance depends on printer type.

5. Find the paper size field. Check if user paper setting is available.

6. If long page setting is not available – see the procedure described below.

7. Select user paper and try to set maximum paper length (or width – depends on printer driver). Enter a high value (e.g. 10 m); the driver will inform you of the maximum value possible.

8. Set paper orientation to “Landscape”.

9. Ensure that “Continuous paper” field is set to “No”.

10. Print preview (printout bands) should be displayed on the screen.

11. Execute the printing.

If user paper setting is not available, try to print using other printer settings. To do this:

1. Select the “Print” tab,

2. Select the required printer in the first field of the data table.

3. Click on the button with three dots on the right side of the second field.

4. Printer settings window is displayed. Its appearance depends on printer type.

5. Depending on the type of printer, try to:

find that printer setting which says that continuous paper is installed in the printer. In HP DeskJet 1120 printer, for instance, such setting is named “Banner”,

set paper size that has “Fanfold” in its name. This paper size informs that internal printing margin should not be implemented (e.g. Epson 2150),

if none of the above produces expected effects – set normal paper.

6. Before finishing printer settings note down the length and width in millimetres of the selected paper size.

7. If after closing the printer settings window the page layout is not appropriate (pages are very small, for instance), enter the noted down lengths of selected paper in the “Paper length” and “Paper width” fields of the data table.

8. Set paper orientation to “Landscape”.

9. Set “Yes” in the “Continuous paper” field in the data table,

10. Enter page length expected by the Windows driver in the “Cont. paper page length” field. This value has to be determined experimentally. Usually it is equal to the TOTAL LENGTH (including margins) OF THE SELECTED PAPER TYPE – for instance, for an A4 page in landscape orientation this will be 297 mm. Sometimes you have to enter here the same value as in the “Paper length” field.

11. Print preview should be displayed on the screen. The vertical paper cutting lines are in this case lines of virtual cutting transferred to the printer driver and they cannot be moved. Horizontal paper cutting lines may be moved.

12. Execute the printing.

The procedure described above may not be applicable to some printers. If printing on continuous paper is not possible, this is usually because of the printer driver. You can try to find an updated version of the printer driver – for instance, at the printer manufacturer’s Web site, by entering in the Web browser the address ‘www.<manufacturer_name>.com’, for instance www.hp.com or www.epson.com. Of course, there is no guarantee that an updated driver will solve the problem.

Printer settings can be saved to the AUTOREAD file, which is a template for creating new files. You’ll find more on the AUTOREAD file in section 7.16.