Printing out the Periodic Table as a Poster ( 9 x A4 pages )
1. Open this file in a PDF Reader – e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader (https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/).
2. Click File, Print to open the Print dialogue box.
3. Set ‘Pages to Print’ to print Page 2 only.
4. Select the ‘Poster ‘ option to print over multiple pages.
5. Increase the ‘Tile Scale’ level to 180%.
6. Increase the ‘Overlap’ to 0.020 inches.
7. Turn on the ‘Cut Marks’ option.
8. Check in the preview that the poster is printing on 9 pages ( 3 x 3 grid ). Adjust the zoom level
as necessary to maximise the size of the Periodic Table.
9. Click ‘Print’.
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Periodic Table of the Elements
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