Sunday

Printing Both Sides of a Pattern

"Place on fold" is one of the phrases that drive me bonkers with diaper patterns.  If I'm trying to lay out multiple diapers on a yard of fabric, it's very helpful to have multiple copies of the full pattern to get the best usage of my fabric.  Some printers allow for "Mirror Image" printing.  If it isn't easily found in the printer settings, check "Advanced" to pull up a list of settings.  Under "Post Script Options" there should be an option for "enable mirrored output" - changing the setting to "yes" will allow reverse image to be printed (it should go back to normal after the Adobe's been closed).

My printer doesn't allow for printing mirror images.  I get around this by "printing" a new PDF file with Bullzip PDF Printer.  The controls look just like a regular printer, but it "prints" a new file.  In the printer settings, check "Advanced" to pull up a list of settings.  Under "Post Script Options" there should be an option for "enable mirrored output" - changing the setting to "yes" will allow reverse image to be printed (it should go back to normal after the Adobe's been closed).

The only diaper pattern that I haven't been able to do this with is the Diaper Revolution Pattern.  I had to, uhm, make the file cooperate with some external help.  A mirror image of the Cloth Revolution pattern (no instructions or the "regular" image of the file) can be found here. I'm sharing this in hopes that it will help someone else out.

The last thing to remember with printing *any* electronic pattern is to make sure that "Page Scaling" is set to "None" (it seems to default to "Shrink to Printable Area" on my computer).

1 comment:

  1. excellent post! i've just been taping the other side on backwards. but it looks ghetto. lol. thanks for sharing!

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