Printing Blueprints (Tile)

i am having such difficulty trying to print some blueprints out using Preview.
i haven't done this in quite a while but i know that it was at least at one point possible.
i want to print a PDF that the actual size is 24" x 36".
i want to "tile" the page so that my single page will be printed using roughly 12 sheets of paper and maintain the true scale of the document.
when i try to print and i get the "print box" i go to the "layout" and there is an option for "pages per sheet". when i select 9 or 16 it just scales my document down to a 9th or 16th of the page.
it is the same result as if i used the "images per page" drop down in the page of the "print box"
this is ********. i have searched forums and have seen responses including all kinds of steps including 3rd party software. can this be true... naw it can't be.

it would help if you used the right software. Preview is, as the name suggests, an app that is supposed to be used to preview images. It is not particularly gifted at printing images. That is not its proper function.
I, personally, have used Graphic Converter for most low-level graphic image-handling jobs for well over a decade. GC has an 'Overlap' option which does exactly what you want. GC is shareware, and fairly cheap if you decide that you'll be using it long-term. There are other ways to do what you want. None of them involve using Preview as is, out of the box. You will have to use something else. That's how it is.

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