I have received much help & many suggestions trying to determine why a custom sized document (a banner measuring 8.5 x 24 to 40 inches, landscape direction) does not print on my HP Deskjet 5650 printer. Thank you everyone!!!

I'm still having a problem though. My problem is that I can get the complete banner printed except the complete banner prints on one sheet of paper only. So the entire 24 inch banner (for example) will print on an 11 inch sheet of paper. I need to "expand" the document to its entire 24 inches and print that.

I tried OpenOffice Draw today. I am able to create a banner, 8.5 x 24 inches, and print it with no problems. Actually Draw seems to be very cool. After I set the print options (in the HP printer set-up box), a warming box opens that says that the page settings do not match the print range. The warning box contains the option to "Print on multiple pages". I select that and the printing is completed on continuous paper (as set in the HP printer set up box) and to its full length.

Is there a page setting/print range setting that I am missing in order to get Inkscape to print the full 24 inches? I searched all over the place.

I'm thinking that, althought OpenOffice Draw sure seems to work (it does print)well, Inkscape is more robust and contains more features then Draw.

Thank you, all, once again.

jt