Printing pages bigger than A4/US Letter

And just to add, I will admit I am really picky about this stuff. I did IT support for a graphic arts department for a long time. With modern printers, pages should look as good as what comes off a printing press.

If I was serious about printing on large format paper, I would search for a used large format laser printer.  These are designed to last as opposed to inkjets that tend to be more a disposable device.  An enterprising person could start a stamp page print shop as a service to collectors but someone has,

The person below mentioned on Steiner's website does this You may want to contact him.

United States Richard S. Simpson
10200 Westwood Dr.
Columbia MD 21044
(phone deleted-see Steiner web site under Useful Information) email: stampalbumpages@gmail.com
Website: www.albumpages.net

Rick can provide not only 8 1/2 x 11" pages, but also any of the pages printed on Scott International or Specialty sized paper. He also offers a very high quality, acid-free paper suitable for printing the pages yourself for 10c a page - contact him for more details.

I am sure Andy can provide a PDF. For example, when I was a newsletter editor I sent the printer a PDF. It was in 11x17 format since it was printed on 11x17 paper then folded, trimmed to even pages, then saddle stapled. This created a booklet of 8 1/2 x 11 pages.

The fact they did not be sure the "scaling" setting was not set does not indicate they have what it takes to do the job. That is PDF printing 101.

I have an Epson 7820 wide format inkjet printer, and honestly, it does a great job if you have the right settings selected. The ink is expensive, and I heard you can use the recycled cartridges (I haven't tried that yet and not sure I want to risk it), but the output is very, very good.

So, I measured the pages. The printer said the pages were 10 x 11 1/2. They're not. They're a little smaller. They're 250x290.

For people that print larger sizes do you feed pre-cut paper through the printer, or do you print on 11x17 paper and then cut it down afterwards?

That's my concern. If I tell it to print 10 1/2 x 11 pages, the printer driver may not like that size and complain.

I like the idea of printing on larger pages, so I can get more stamps on each page, which will reduce the overall thickness of my albums. But I will also be limiting myself to which binders I can use.

I'd like my printer to have the following features:

1. Really prefer an inkjet printer because of price
2. Must have a Linux driver of some kind
3. MUST use ink tanks instead of cartridges
4. Can't be an HP printer

I would love to find a used 11x17 black and white laser printer, but I'm not having any luck.

The problem with HP printers is they chip EVERYTHING, even their toner cartridges. My friend worked for HP back in the 2000s. After HP invented their chip technology, the profit pie chart at the company meetings showed that more than 50% of corporate profits came from ink.

I agree with you in durability of modern HP printers. In the 90s and earlier, HP printers were built to last. I had an HP DeskJet 932 that I bought in the 90s had for close to a decade. The thing was tank. It was heavy. It was durable. And it just worked. But the shelf I had it on broke and the printer fell 6 feet to the floor and the case cracked and would not print any more. The next HP I got was really crappy and came with "Starter ink." That printed about 20 pages before you need to buy genuine ink. That think broke on me 4 times under warranty. I remember I saved all the starter ink cartridges and tried to use them later and the printer would not let me. It told me that the printer had already used a regular cartridge and was allowed to use starter ink any more.

Then HP started to demand that you mail back the cartridges with the printer, so they could verify you were using genuine cartridges. Which meant that you were mailing back pretty full, very expensive cartridges, and getting back starter ink again. At that point, I bailed on HP and went to Canon. Now I am on Epson.

Since that 932 broke, I have been through 5 different printers.

I have an Epson ET-2750 now, which is an EcoTank printer. I bought it two years ago. I have yet to buy ink for it. The tanks are still half full. And the tanks are filled with bottles which are impossible to chip with the way Epson set them. And the filling system is interesting. When you first get it, you empty the bottles into it, and 10% of each color gets left behind. Then you turn on the printer and it has to "prime the feed," which takes about 5 minutes and reduces the ink tanks by 10%. You're then supposed to reinsert the bottle and let the leftover ink fill each tank to 100%. I was really impressed that Epson went to the trouble to make sure each tank was filled 100% before you did your first print.

Now when my print heads clog and I need to clean them, I don't even think twice about it.

As a printer the ET-2750 has been pretty rock solid. The only issue I've had is flaky firmware updates. It's been bricked twice by a bad firmware update. But Epson happily exchanged it even when it was out of warranty. The last year, all the firmware updates have been pretty solid. No more bricking.

So, from my experience, tank printers are WAY cheaper to operate than cartridge printers. And when I had a cartridge printer, I would buy third party ink cartridges from LD Products and the driver would nag me that I am not using genuine ink. Not a real big deal for me, but it really bothered my wife and kids.