Photoshop CS3 Printing on Epson 825

I can't get the print size I have in the Photo, instead I get a small
3 X 5 picture at the top on the photo print when the size requested
is 10 X 8. I use CS3 and Window XP. I can print correctly with CS2.
Any help is appreciated.
Thomas Rice

Hi,
Thanks for the information.
I also found a software called Qimage which, although a bit clanky to get used to managed to print to the 100".
I find it strange that CS3 cannot print these images. Even to print to 44 inches you have to rotate the image to Portrait first.
I'll buy Lightroom as large pano's are the requirement at the moment still, but Adobe need to address this issue, unles they deliberatley want us to purchase 2 applications, when one should be enough...
Thankls for the info again.

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