Poster Printer

One purchase — $0.99 in the US, the local equivalent elsewhere. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. Every feature on this page is in the app the moment you download it.

They share an engine and split the job. Poster Printer is the poster: it has the color work — duo-tone, saturation, contrast — and exact-dimension scaling for when the wall is a known size. Standee mode is here too, and it is good, but it is the second thing this app does.

Cardboard Cutout is the standee. It adds the things a free-standing cutout needs and a wall poster does not: a physics pass that generates a flat, balanced base so the thing stands up, AI speech and thought bubbles anchored to the face, and any border color you can name rather than white or black.

If you are printing something to hang, buy this one. If you are printing a person to stand in a room, buy that one. They are ninety-nine cents each, so this is not an agonizing decision.

iPhone and iPad, running iOS or iPadOS 26.2 or later. One purchase covers both.

Ten pages wide, with the height following your image’s aspect ratio. On US Letter that works out around seven feet across; on Tabloid or A3, closer to nine. The demo on this page stops at twenty-four sheets and three and a half feet, which is already wider than the painting it is copying.

Past that, the limiting factor stops being the app and starts being whether you own that much uninterrupted drywall.

Turning a photograph into a graphic. Instead of printing every color in the image, the app maps the dark parts to one color and the light parts to another — the look of a two-color silkscreen gig poster. It is also gentler on ink than a full-color print, for the obvious reason.

Saturation and contrast sit next to it for when you want the photo to stay a photo and just need it a little louder on paper than it looked on screen.

A large poster at full coverage uses a lot, yes. That is what Ink Saver is for: a CMYK halftone dot screen across the image that keeps the colors and the subject readable on far less ink. Up close it looks like newsprint. From across the room, which is where a mural is looked at, it looks like the photo.

Duo-tone helps too, since it is only laying down two colors instead of four.

Ordinary office paper is fine for a wall poster, though card stock holds up better and will not show the tape through from behind.

For a standee, card stock is the minimum, and paper alone will not stand up. Glue the assembled piece to foam core board or corrugated cardboard, cut around the line, and tape a triangle of the same board to the back as a kickstand.

Every page prints with a dotted cut line and an overlap area beyond it. Trim along the dotted line with scissors or a craft knife, apply tape or glue to the overlap, and lay the next sheet on top.

The overlap on each page carries a small printed label — Col 2 of 5, Row 2 of 5 — so a dropped stack is an annoyance rather than a disaster. Once the next sheet is down, the label is underneath it.

At the smaller end, yes. Tape the seams on the back — archival tape if you care about how it looks in ten years — and a poster that lands near 24 by 36 inches drops straight into an off-the-shelf frame, with nobody the wiser about the office inkjet it came out of.

At the larger end you are past anything sold ready-made. A seven-foot mural goes up unframed, or into something built for it. Mounting the whole sheet on foam core first keeps it flat and makes it far easier to handle.

No. Any inkjet or laser printer that supports AirPrint will print directly from the phone. If yours does not, save the tiled document as a PDF through the iOS print dialog and print it from a computer, or take it to a copy shop.

Borderless photo printers get one extra option: a margin-less toggle that removes the white edge from every sheet.

Yes, and the big collections make it easy — a great many museums publish their out-of-copyright works at full resolution, free. Those files arrive enormous, which is exactly what you want when you are covering a wall with them.

One honest note on the arithmetic: the ninety-nine cents buys the app. The ink is between you and your printer, and a twenty-four-sheet mural is not a ninety-nine-cent afternoon. That is what Ink Saver mode is for.

Less terrible than you would expect. The app applies high-quality resampling and sharpening as it tiles, so an image short of pixels goes gently soft rather than turning into visible squares. A phone photo taken in decent light will make a convincing six-foot poster; a screenshot of a screenshot will not.

No. Background removal, tiling, scaling, color work and halftoning all run locally on your device. HoneyWired runs no server for this app, holds no account for you, and has no analytics or advertising code in it.