poster/tiled printing in MacOSX 10.6 - how toenable?

[Bill Kalarness]

Thanks Michael!!

-Bill

> Mac OS X does not support poster printing all by itself. There are =
> several third-party applications that allow you to do this, however...
>
> On Jan 23, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Bill Kalarness wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how I could enable poster printing (sometimes also =
> called Tiled printing) in MacOS X 10.6?
> >=20
> > I recently bought a Canon printer and do not see any poster printing =
> options... this is where the image is printed across multiple sheets of =
> paper, and these are then assembled to create the final image.
> >=20
> > According to Canon support - their driver does have this =
> functionality, but it is not visible because Apple does not provide this =
> capability to users.
>
> That is a bogus response - Canon provides their own driver UI which is =
> shown in the print dialog. If they don't expose this driver feature in =
> their UI, it is their own fault and not a limitation of CUPS or Mac OS =
> X...
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>