Thanks so much for this tip! I will definitely give it a try today. As far as printing on freezer paper, I might be leary of using a laser printer but ink-jet would work easily enough.

Where did you purchase the precut freezer paper sheets? Do you remember brand, etc.?

That would be a great timesaver.

kim

Great tip for using Excel. I hadn't tried this before. I think this will work great for some of my smaller designs and printing right onto freezer paper is a nice time saver. If you don't want to cut your freezer paper to size, they sell it in 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. I think I paid less than $6 for 50 of the heavy duty sheets.

I put 8 1/1x11 sheets of freezer paper thru my printer to put the BOM designs on and it works great. I usually cut 4-5 pages at a time from the roll and put them under some heavier books to flatten them out a little but I've also fed 1 sheet at a time that was curvy and it works fine.

Libbi, I have put freezer paper through the printer as a backing for fabric and it worked fine... haven't tried it on its own... sounds like an experiment in the making there!

Carla

That worked well. It won't work for all the projects I have in my head but it is a great tip. Since I am attempting a Rhapsody, do you know if you can put freezer paper into a printer? Don't want much do I but wouldn't that be a great time saver?

If you have a design in digital format (either by downloading or scanning in the design), you can enlarge it by:

1) opening your design image file,
2) copying it (Ctrl+a captures it all; Ctrl+C copies it).
3) Then you open Excel
4) paste it onto a new worksheet (just hit Ctrl+v or Edit then Paste).
5) After you paste it, you can click on it to select it, and Format Picture. This allows you to set the size.
6) THEN, finally, when you print it.

Excel breaks it up into overlappable pieces and you can cut and paste it together. This is how I enlarge all my designs. It's cheap, and it's easy. There is sometimes a slight distortion in the printing, but it's usually not much.