[reportlab-users] Printing problems

[Mark Saward]

On Friday 16 September 2005 5:37, Robin Becker wrote:
> Mark Saward wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having troubles with a pdf output I've created.  It's to print on
> > sticker labels, each label being 38.1mm * 21.2mm.  When I print this, I
> > need to turn off scaling, but then it prints perfectly into the
> > boundaries of the stickers.
>
> when you say scaling is this by the printer or by the print driver?

Adobe Reader does the scaling, so this is needed to be turned off.

> > However, I take this to other printers and suddenly it no longer prints
> > correctly...offset, like the margins are not correct.  The interesting
> > thing is, my script to generate the pdf is using exact measurements for
> > the sticker width+height, the bottom of the page and the left of the page
> > to the start of the stickers.  In other words, I use measurements to
> > create the pdf, not trial and error to fit the printer that works.
>
> different printers use different paper movements and it's observed that
> the theoretical positioning is often not right.

So basically, some printers print accurately, while others make some changes?

If so, that's quite painful.  How do you set a printer to print to labels if 
you can't trust it to print accurately?

Thanks,
Mark