Making Big Prints in Class

Earlier this week, we fired up the 44" HP printer in the design department at Concordia so my Photo II / Advanced Photo class could make some prints for the upcoming Student Juried Exhibition. (Here are related posts where I shared a quick pic in 2023, and more details during the Student Juried Exhibition along with more prints being printed in 2024.)

Four photos just after printing.


Two big images coming through!

The HP software is great for "nesting" images on this bigger paper. As an exmaple, when I uploaded the first 4 images, it looks like this in the software:

Four images on the left, and an example of what the
selected print will look like on the 44" paper at the bottom.

Then when you click on the printer at the top, it opens up more options:

More options, with an arrow pointing to "nesting."

If you click on "nesting," it will nest all of the images that you loaded. So in this example, the printer will use the same amount of paper, but it nested in the other 3 images to the side of the bigger print:

Good luck students! The work will be juried shortly, so we'll see who's pieces get accepted! The opening is Thursday, April 10th 2025 from 5-7 pm at the Concordia Gallery (1301 Marshall Ave, Saint Paul, MN).