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Drawing printed wrong scale in one direction

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Drawing printed wrong scale in one direction

Anonymous
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My friend asked to help him with this problem. His drawing printed was wrongly scaled in one direction. Paper A4. Lets say he has a drawn a rectangle 20x15 cm. He printed it out on an A4 paper, and when he measured it on paper, the rectangle was 15 x 19,9 cm. Weird, isn't it? It scaled allong one axis (the one along the longer side of papaer). So I told him to mail me the file and wanted to help him find a solution. Wasn't successful. But not only that, I noticed that since than, the same thing is happening to me, but not only in that drawing but in every other drawing too. I never noticed this before. He is using Autocad 2014, and Im using Autocad Architectural 2013. His printer is a Cannon Pixma ip150, mine is Hp deskjet 1510. I tried printing to pdf, and than mesasured in photoshop and it was fine, so it should be the printer, right? But I printed this on another 2 printers and got the same error. Are all 4 printers wrongly calibrated? How do you calibrate a printer anyway? Has anyone had the same issues? I won't upload any file since it happens to all my drawings. 
Thanks

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Anonymous
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Have you tried calibrating the plotter?

On the "Output" tab select "Plotter Manager"

In the list that opens double-click the plotter you wish to calibrate

On "Device and document settings" tab select "Plotter Calibration", hit the "Calibrate Plotter..." button & follow the prompts......see attached graphic for "visual instructions"

Hope this helps

omar_hernandezAD47V
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@Anonymous Just wanted to let you know that this is in fact the correct answer. I ran into this problem. I was making an scaled paper version for our substation techs for a metal plate. I printed a paper and found out that the short side of the paper was not calibrated properly. This is the only helpful answer I found.

ericgarlez
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Wow, it was like 8 years ago that i made that question. Thanx for your
answer!
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treevine191
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yess.. this solution worked to my printer thanks mate..

now its already into scale or atleast to the nearest micrometers

thank you for spending time for suggesting this one to us again....

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wispoxy
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Send us cad of your box and we'll send you a proper pdf of it. If it prints out wrong, it's your printer.
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Kent1Cooper
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[They may not see your Message, since their last posting was about 8-1/2 years ago.]

Kent Cooper, AIA
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wispoxy
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Thanks. I got to pay attention to the start dates of these threads.
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