Michael, I am trying to print banners approx. 24 to 40 inches long by 8.5 inches wide in either landscape or portrait orientation on continous paper. I would like to get my document on continous paper so that I don't have to cut and tape the thing together.
Up to this point, the first page prints but then everything stops as though the print job was completed. So if the document was 4 sheets long, I would get the first page printed only.
Any advise?
Inkscape doesn't support multi-page documents, so that might mean it's not going to work for you.
What I'd try first though is to make sure that your document size is the same size as your drawing. The Inkscape canvas goes FAR beyond the edges of the document, but printing is done based on the edges of the document. You can specify a custom document size in File-->Document Properties
On Linux and OSX at least, Inkscape creates a PostScript file, and sends it to the printer. I think it's the same thing on Windows, but I don't know. Assuming it's the same, Inkscape is going to create a PostScript file that is 24x8.5 inches (or document sized), and send that to the printer. If your printer handle that size PS file, it may just accept the first page worth, and print that.
Can your printer print banners in other programs?
That's just my two cents. I haven't worked with printing on Windows enough to say for sure.