Epson Stylus 9600 Plotter - Printing from Microsoft PowerPoint

Epson Stylus 9600 Plotter
Printing from Microsoft PowerPoint
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Epson Stylus 9600 Plotter
Printing from Microsoft PowerPoint

Where to find the Epson Stylus 9600 Plotter

The Epson Stylus 9600 Plotter is located in Knapp, in the back of the staff area. The Knapp Center strongly recommends reserving a date and time to use the plotter. Reservations can be made in person at the Knapp Service Desk or over the phone x2368. Printing costs $7 per linear foot based on the amount of paper used, not the size of the poster.

Getting Started

All plotter print jobs must be sent from the G4 Macintosh computer located next to the plotter. You are expected to arrive at the plotter printer station with your posters ready to print. This means you may enlarge your poster to the appropriate printing size, but may not create your poster on the G4 Macintosh computer used to send print jobs to the plotter.

Printing from Microsoft PowerPoint

1. Save a copy of your document to the desktop. DO NOT work on a document from a disk or on the network.

2. Set the page size for your document.

a) Open your document in Microsoft PowerPoint.
b) From the File menu, choose Page Setup. A window titled Page Setup will open.

c) In the Page Setup window, click the Options button. A second window titled Page Setup will open.

d) In the second Page Setup window:

The Settings field should read Page Attributes.

Set the Format for: field to Stylus Pro 9600

Click the pull-down menu next to the Paper Size: field

Select a PRESET paper size close to the size of your document.

** The maximum poster size you can print to from Microsoft PowerPoint is 33" x 46.5". This corresponds to the Super AO preset paper size. **

PowerPoint will not print from custom paper sizes. Note, the crossed out selections in the adjacent picture are NOT acceptable paper sizes.

The dimension is given as width first, then height.

If you are uncertain about the dimensions of a specified page, select the size. The dimensions will appear below the menu item

Once you have selected the correct paper size, click OK

3. Back in the PowerPoint Page Setup window:

Set the Slides sized for: field to Custom.

The width and height fields should automatically set to the proper dimensions for the page size you selected.

Click OK.

4. Check the appearance of your document in Power Point to make sure you are comfortable with it. If so, save a second copy of your document to the desktop with a new name to avoid copying over the original file.

NOTE : orientation settings in PowerPoint do not stick after you select them. To check if the orientation of the slide is correct:

Go to the File menu and select Print. A window titled Print (image is shown below) will open.
Choose Preview. This will accurately reflect the way the document will be printed.
If the orientation is incorrect, you will need to save the document as a PDF (step 5)

5. In PowerPoint, go to the File menu and select Print. A window titled Print will open.

In the Print window:

Make sure the printer is set to Stylus Pro 9600

Click on the Copies & Pages pull-down menu and select Print Settings.

In the Print Settings panel, from the pull-down menu to the right of Media Type, select the type of the paper currently in the printer.

In the Print Settings panel, make sure the Mode is set to Automatic and the slider is set to Quality.

If the orientation settings did not stick in PowerPoint after you selected them, click Save as PDF instead of Print, and then follow the instructions to open and print your document from Adobe Photoshop.

If you are comfortable with the appearance of your document in PowerPoint, click Print.

Rebecca Levine
Knapp Media & Technology Center
Date Created: January 23, 2004
Last Modified: June 3, 2004

Epson Stylus 9600 Plotter Printing from Microsoft PowerPoint

Epson Stylus 9600 Plotter
Printing from Microsoft PowerPoint