scaling print size in windows 10

[BobMounger]

I have an lace pattern picture that I want to print at 120% for my wife. I cannot see any way to do this either with the hp printer manager app, or with a windows dialog. 

I finally found that I could scan it to jpeg, open it in paint, fix the units from pixels to inches, crop the picture, grow it 120% & then print that, but it is a lot of trouble just to scan an image & print it at 120%. We used to be able to do this with this same printer with  an  OSX machine simply.

What am I doing wrong?

[JanKrank]

Hello there,

If you are using Paint, have you tried using the Scaling menu  when you click File > Print > Page setup? You can use the Adjust to setting to increase the size of the printout.

There is a similar Scaling or Scale to menu in most applications when you open File > Print or Print Preview.

Let me know if this helps.

I work on behalf of HP, but my opinions are my own.

[ReverseTalk]

Hi Bob,

From the Photos app in Windows 10, there does not seem to be a scale option, unfortunately. 

But the following steps might work:

If you open the photo in Windows Photo Viewer (instead of the Windows 10 Photo app), you can scale within the printer properties. File>Print>Options>Printer Properties>Effects>scale as needed.

If these steps work for you, I'd suggest making Windows Photo Viewer your default program to open pictures if you're wanting to scale often.

[BobMounger]

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

Unfortunately this PC was not upgraded from an older version of windows. I'll look at the registry editing steps to see if I can use the older windows photo viewer.

[BobMounger]

Thanks for the reply. 

As I say, I can massage the file in paint, but I was & am surprised that one has to jump through so many hoops to do something that use to be part of the print dialog

[Smallmom6]

Thank You Jan Krank!!! I have been at it for 2 hours trying to print a pattern and THIS comment saved me! Much appreciated! 💗💗💗

[JanKrank]

Very glad to hear this helped you get your pattern printed! Happy printing!

[Middleburger]

Seems a tremendous amount of steps you're going thru.  I might be able to stear you in a different direction.  I frequently scale MS Docx (8.5 x 11") text files to 62%.   The scaling is done via the HP  All-In-One printer: Copy >Copy Settings >Resize>Custom >Enter Percentage.  Obviously, this is making the copy smaller... but it should work with enlargements.   You can dump output to a file if you have access to a large bed printer.  I've never made a poster, but if you're making HUGE enlargements, perhaps that's an avenue you may explore,  Cheers, Kyd 32068