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Roman Kos - 28 Sep 2003 16:16 GMT

I am finally ready to buy a new printer. I would also like it includes an
ability to print family trees. Any suggestions?
Roman

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 28 Sep 2003 21:37 GMT

Any printer capable of printing graphics (which would be pretty much any
printer you can buy today) will print family trees. It's up to you to figure
out how to construct the family tree in a document. There is genealogy
software dedicated to this purpose, but you can also fake it with tables in
Word or with text boxes and connectors in Publisher (I wouldn't try the
latter in Word or the former in Publisher because I value my sanity).

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> I am finally ready to buy a new printer. I would also like it includes an
> ability to print family trees. Any suggestions?
> Roman

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Roman Kos - 29 Sep 2003 06:25 GMT

Thank you. I was thinking of printing large charts border to border then to
clue sheets.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 29 Sep 2003 16:13 GMT

It sounds as if software is more of an issue than the printer, then, since
this doesn't sound like the sort of thing you'd be doing in Word. If the
charts are large, you'll want to get a printer that can handle 11" x 17"
(and note that Word can't print anything larger than 22" in either
direction).

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> Thank you. I was thinking of printing large charts border to border then to
> clue sheets.

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