You can download the Kinko File Prep Tool from http://www.kinkos.com and click on the link "free KFP software", click on "start download". The file names is kfpsetup.exe and 4.56MB. Install by double clicking on the downloaded file name. Using this tool will properly format your output for Kinkos to print large format charts. Your local Kinkos should be able to help you further. Gordon Young (Not a Kinkos employee or any particular fan) -----Original Message----- From: RuthAnn Jones [mailto:poofie@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:56 PM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: Subject: Re: [FO] Software Development Cycle Sue, Let us know if Alfred's suggestion works. I to would like to print large charts at Kinko's. If it doesn't work we need to put it on the official suggestion list. -----Snip------- Large printouts! If you check with Kinko's and see what printer they are using, set your computer to output to that printer, (If you can find the drivers) Set the paper size, then see what Family Origins output to the screen looks like. If it looks right, capture the printer port output to a file and trot down to Kinko's with the file on a floppy and see what they can do with it. (you have to fool your computer into thinking you have that printer connected, then divert the output to a PRN file, which is not the same as printing to a genetic text file. I could do that in DOS, but I cannot remember how to do it with Windows. ) Ok I think I found it: After the imaginary printer is set up, left click on it and select it's properties, Click on the "Details" tab to show it, then click on the "Capture printer port" button. In the Path slot, enter the path and filename you want to save the file to. You might want to check the "Reconnect at logon" that looks to me to be the way to stop printing to a file in case you forget next time. But it wont help if you have a real printer set on this port, because it will get commands it cannot understand. I don't know that this will work, but with my Epson, I can set the paper size to 9'5" by 44" and the screen output shows that it takes just 4 sheets to print my 8 generation ancestor box chart, but I don't have any paper this size <{;-( Good luck, Alfred ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== UNSUBSCRIBE? Send the word: UNSUBSCRIBE(inside the message) and no additional text to: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com or FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com for DIGEST ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp