Creating a fake printer

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Creating a fake printer

Hi All,

I want to create a fake printer. I want to be able to save pdf's at A1 & A0 size. The largest printer I have is an A3, which limits me to being able to print pdfs up to that size.

Is there a way of creating a fake printer, where a driver of a large format printer sits on your machine (although there is no printer connected to the mac), simply so that I can use the pdf save option up to A0.

Thanks

T

P.S: If you're a print wizard, could you also have a look at my other post here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2007267&tstart=0

macbook 2.4ghz 4GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.5.7), iPhone 3G

Posted on May 15, 2009 6:56 AM

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Matt Broughton

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May 15, 2009 8:51 AM in response to thomcooper

thomcooper wrote:
I want to create a fake printer. I want to be able to save pdf's at A1 & A0 size. The largest printer I have is an A3, which limits me to being able to print pdfs up to that size.

The hardest part will be finding a printer PPD that contains those paper sizes. Once you have a suitable PPD, simply go to Print & Fax System Preference. Click the "+" icon to add a printer. Choose the IP icon in the Add Printer window. Select LPD as the protocol and enter the address for your own computer (check under Network preference if you are not sure). Then use the Print Using option to navigate to the PPD for a large format printer. Click Add.

You should now be able to use that printer to select the appropriate page sizes and then Save as PDF.

Matt

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thomcooper Author

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May 27, 2009 12:44 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Cheers again Matt!

For anyone trying to do the same thing & are looking for a suitable printer, the HP DesignJet 750C Plus prints upto A0+.

Thanks again

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