Hybrid Tutorial: Printing 12x12 Papers at 8.5x11

Printing via Image Viewer

You can easily print a cropped version of any 12x12 paper by simply opening it up in your built-in image viewer for your OS, clicking print, and then making sure “Fill Entire Paper” is checked rather than “Print Entire image” which will shrink down the 12x12 to fit on your 8.5x11 Paper.

Be sure to print your paper at “full bleed” on the highest quality. I like to print my papers on Bold Digital High Performance Printing copy paper for a thinner paper option, or Epson Premium Presentation Paper for a card stock option.

Resizing and Printing via Photo Editing Software like Photoshop

Alternatively, if you would like to resize your image or print a certain portion of the image, you can open up your 12x12 paper in photoshop or any other image editor and follow these steps.

Step One: Change the image size to the largest measurement you would like to print. So for an 8.5x11, you would change the image size to 11 inches square.

Step Two: Change the CANVAS (not image) size to 8.5 inches, this will crop the paper in from 11 inches wide.

You can choose the “anchor point” of the crop by clicking any of the arrows in the “anchor” image above. It automatically crops to the center, but if you choose the left anchor point, it will crop to the left hand side and the right anchor point will crop to the right hand side. This is useful if you are printing a paper with a design on one side.

Step Three: You can now print, just like above, making sure you’re printing a borderless image at high quality to get the best image.