Large Format Printing MAC vs PC - different results same printer

[dan_movie]

Hi All,
New to the forum and already have a bizarre excel situation.

Computer #1 = Excel 2010 on PC
Computer #2 = Excel 2016 on MAC
Both computers using Canon ipf8300s large format printer.
Both trying to print a 30 x 44 inch spreadsheet.

My PC is successful in setting a print area, and printing on one page
while scaling to fit. The MAC will only print several pages. It is like if the MAC only sees the print area as a bunch of Letter size sheets so it print a tiny sheet on a huge page, actually on several huge pages. Is this something to do with the 2016 version ?

Thanks
Dan

 

[mole999]

are you using generic printer drivers, or the specific ones for that machine and the operating system?

 

[dan_movie]

specific printer driver for each machine, the very latest ones as well as the latest firmware for the printer.

what i did not mention in my original post is that while all is good on the PC side the best I can get on the MAC machine is the sheets to print on large page by using the "n-up" type option...the option that let's me specify how many sheets to print on the same page. But those are still a bunch of tiny sheets just printed closer together on one large page of paper.

 

[dan_movie]

[FONT=&quot]I have included screen shots to show the difference in the print preview window.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Same file, same print area, same selected paper type (Arch E 36x48"), same network printer. The only difference is Excel 2010 on a PC and Excel 2016 on a MAC.

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[mole999]

fit roll paper width

 

[dan_movie]

Tried, does not work. I am almost at a point where I think it is a limitation of the MAC version of Excel.

Like in a previous version of Excel where the zoom out function had a minimum of 25% on MAC but 10% on PCs

 

[mole999]

what happens when you boost the scale ?

could you export as pdf and then print that ?