Reply To: Exporting or Printing Large Format Graphic onto one page

Perhaps I'm overlooking the obvious, but …

(1) If you print your large graphic to an 11 x 17″ size at 100%, it's pretty obvious you get only a part of it.

(2) Equally, if you size-to-fit, your image will be reduced in size (how much depends on the original size, but I'm eyeballing it at about 10%).

It's kind of hard to get the gist of your question; are you hoping for a trick that magically enlarges the max size of your printer? ;)

You can get there halfway (or so I believe) if you use 'manual tiling', something that you can do in InDesign's Print Dialog, and possibly also from within Acrobat.