Printing paper sizes

[Skoalmin1]

Hello every one sorry if this is in the completely wrong section... \

How ever I have been having trouble getting to the starting line with my armor... My friends and I have already completed a few of your many great Guns and Props Pepakura Viewer files and then we had tried to move on to the bigger stuff now with our actual helmets...

The Problem though we found out after wasting about 150 sheets of our card stock is that they are printing to small...!!!!! We are using just a stander laser jet printer and we tried different card stock thicknesses.

I guess what I'm asking is that do you need to use legal size paper because the guns were fine with normal 8.5x 11 card stock but we think that the paper would need to be like 11 x 17 to print right, but that wouldn't make sense, but I'm not sure if I want to have to run out and have my files printed on a giant roll printer...

if you would be able to kinda give me an answer that would be greatly appreciated.... thanks all look forward to seeing the amazing stuff you guys do.....

 

[Ral Partha]

This should have been in the Help!: Pepakura sticky thread.

The Problem though we found out after wasting about 150 sheets of our card stock is that they are printing to small...!!!!! We are using just a stander laser jet printer and we tried different card stock thicknesses.

When working with armor pieces, you cannot use Pep Viewer because you need to re-size or re-scale the parts to fit you. As such you have to use Pep Designer.

I guess what I'm asking is that do you need to use legal size paper because the guns were fine with normal 8.5x 11 card stock but we think that the paper would need to be like 11 x 17 to print right, but that wouldn't make sense, but I'm not sure if I want to have to run out and have my files printed on a giant roll printer...

if you would be able to kinda give me an answer that would be greatly appreciated.... thanks all look forward to seeing the amazing stuff you guys do.....

This is why you need to use Designer (read: ditch the Viewer!). In order to make the pieces larger, you need to re-scale the file, which only the Designer can do. After the re-scale, you may have to move the pieces to clean up any overlapping pieces.

 

[Skoalmin1]

Dude thanks for the really speedy reply and also thank you for letting my know where I should have posted I'm still new to this site so I wasn't really sure.

Now that I know what needs to be done I'll start from scratch... I was just unsure on what program that I needed to use