LESSON 14
TILE PRINTING
STRUCTURE 14.0
OBJECTIVES
14.1
INTRODUCTION
14.2
TILE PRINTING
14.3
APPLYING PRINT STYLES
14.4
SUMMING UP
14.5
POSSIBLE ANSWER TO SELF-CHECK QUESTIONS
14.6
TERMINAL QUESTIONS
14.7
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING
14.8
GLOSSARY
14. TILE PRINTING In Lesson 13 we have learnt to organize printing of Bromides and to give different print commands. This lesson will deal with tile printing. ________________________________________________________________________
14.0 Objectives After going through this Lesson, you should be able to •
Understand tile printing.
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Create large size designs printed in Tile Printing.
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Create print styles.
14.1 Introduction Some times the designs are of such nature that they may need to enlarged and may not be printed in one go and on a single sheet. It may have to be printed piece by piece to be joined later. This technique of printing in sections or pieces is called tile printing.
14.2 Tile Printing If the documents that are created with CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 do not match the material size to which they are being printed, the document can be printed in sections, or tiles. CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 provides a tile printing operation that allows printing any sized document to any sized print material. Using this technique, a document of postage stamp size to a play field size material (or vice versa) can be printed. Consider the example of map shown below (Fig. 14.1). It has to enlarged and printed onto letter-sized sheets. In this case, the map has been prepared on a page size inches by 8 inches, but print reproduction size to fit a space 63 inches by inches.
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Fig. 14.1 Printing large documents
Following are the steps to accomplish tile printing: • Set Print Material Size Accessed by choosing File Print Preview, tile-printing is controlled using the Print Preview command. Since the document to be printed is small and has to be enlarged, first select the printer and specify the print material size (in this case, Letter). To do this, choose Settings General, and click the General tab of the Print Options dialog. To access print driver options, choose a printer and click the Properties button (Fig. 14.2). Then choose paper size, and click OK.
Fig. 14.2 Print options
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Determining Final Printed Size
With the material size selected, click the Layout tab, locate the specific page, and click the Print Tiled Pages option (Fig. 14.3). Type a corresponding print size in one of the Size boxes, and press Enter. To avoid distorting output, ensure the Maintain Aspect Ratio option is enabled. Notice that the # of Tiles boxes now show the number of sheets the output will need; for this example, enter a 63-inch width by 57 inch depth, which will require 56 tiles in total (7 horizontally x 8 vertically).
Fig. 14.3 ‘Print Tiled Pages’ option
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Using Tile Overlap and Tile Marks
Most composite printers leave a 5 percent blank strip at the edge of each printed page. To compensate for this, specifying a Tile Overlap amount (Fig. 14.4) allows adding a uniform image portion to each tile section. If unsure of the amount to use, print a full-page test sheet set with a background colour. If the blank margins around the
edges are uneven, enter the largest value in the Tile Overlap box. To add trim marks to which to align the printed sheets when assembling the final product after printing, enable the Tiling Marks option. When the document prints, the tile marks will indicate both the edges of the tiles, and the overlap margins. After setting any other required options for printing, close the Print Options dialog box to return to the Print Preview window.
Fig. 14.4 Specifying ‘Tile overlap’ amount
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Previewing the Tiles and Options
In the Print Preview window, see the tile seams indicated as dotted lines, black tile marks matching the printing material size and orientation, as well as the overlap portion that has been specified. At this point, confirm the settings to get ready to print the tiles. Choosing File Print starts the printing process immediately. To print a specific tile without reprinting the entire collection, right-click any of the tile sections in the Print Preview window, and choose Print This Sheet Now from the pop-up menu. Only the tile that was right-clicked will be printed at the current Print Options settings.
14.3 Applying Print Styles A print style is a set of saved printing options. Each print style is a separate file. This allows moving a print style from one machine to another, back up a print style, and keep document specific styles in the same directory as the document file. Manage print styles by selecting a print style or edit a print style and save changes or a delete print style.
Self-check Questions 1. What is the advantage of Tile printing? 2. What is a print style? 14.3.1 To select a print style •
Click File Print.
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Choose one of the following from the Print Style list box: o CorelDraw defaults o Corel R.A.V.E
o Corel PHOTO-PAINT defaults o Browse •
Click File Print.
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Click the General tab.
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Set any printing options.
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Click Save as.
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Choose the drive and folder where you want to save the print style.
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Type a name for the style in the File name box.
Tips: While saving a print style, a dialog box opens that includes a section called Settings to include. The settings in this section correspond to the printing options that have already been selected. The settings to be included in a print style can also be specified in this dialog box. 14.3.2 To edit a print style •
Click File Print.
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Choose a print style from the Print style list box.
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Modify any of the printing options.
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Click Save as.
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Choose the drive and folder where the print style is stored.
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Click the filename.
Note: Save the modified settings as a print style or apply the changes before canceling; otherwise, all of the modified settings will be lost. 14.3.3 To delete a print style •
Click File Print preview.
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Select a print style.
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Click the minus sign (-).
14.4 Summing Up In this lesson we learnt how to print a CorelDraw document or graphics that doesn’t match the material size to which you are printing. i.e. How to print in sections or tiles known as tile printing. We also learnt about applying the print style options.
14.5 Possible Answers to Self-check Questions 1. If the documents that are created, do not match the material size to which they are being printed, the document can be printed in sections. This is referred as tile printing. Tiling allows printing any sized document to any sized print material for e.g. using this technique, a document of postage stamp size to a play field size or in vice versa. 2. A print style is a set of saved printing options. Each print style is a separate file.
14.6 Terminal Questions 1. Explain Tile printing? 2 How do you select a print style? Explain.
14.7 References and Suggested Further Reading 1.
Help Menu & Tutorials of CorelDraw
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Schwartz. 2000. CorelDraw 11 for Windows. Pearson Education India, New Delhi.
14.8 Glossary 1.
Accomplish Finish, Complete
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Distorting
Misrepresent, Twist out of shape
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Composite
Something made up of separate parts
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Assembling To collect and put together the parts of
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Aspect ratio Proportion features or elements positioned facing a direction, appearance