Hello everyone!
I tried to print 1:1 scale between paper and model(Rhino 5.0(64-bit), windows 7…).
But print result is smaller then modeling.
Is there any options that I have to do?
Thanks.
Jinwook Kim.
Is the detail scale 1:1 also?
You might also need to calibrate your printer. It’s usually in the advanced properties of better printers.
If you can’t do that, then use the calibration tools in Rhino, in the Printer Details section of the print setup window. You can scale x and y separately.
I changed printer setting and it works. Thank you @carvecream !
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Hello Guys I still can not solve this , is there any other way to fix this? I manually put the paper size which is 8.5 x 11 inches and i still get the prints shrink, for example, when I print a 5 inches line, I get 4.7/8 on the paper…
If you can’t calibrate your printer to scale accurately, you’ll need to get a better printer.
Keep in mind that most printers are not specifically intended for printing accurately scaled prints. Some start out fine and deteriorate over time as they wear.
Other printers are inaccurate from the start but fine for printing text.
Higher end printers intended for printing Engineering and Architectural plans have calibration tools. Well, at least the used to. I haven’t purchased one in a very long time.
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Typically consumer-grade paper printers will be pretty accurate in the “X” direction (the direction the print head travels) because that is pretty well calibrated and measurable. However, in the “Y” direction, the paper goes through a system of rollers which are less well calibrate-able, and in addition the paper can slip while being transported through the system. So generally the inaccuracy is in that direction. Also, depending on the amount of ink, the paper itself can expand/contract differentially depending on how it was manufactured.
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Thank you very much! i can see now yes my printer doesn’t have that option and it is a decent printer a brother MFC series , I’m now more often having to print 2D templates , which printer would you recommend ?
That makes a lot of sense, thank you very much!! Is it a printer you might recommend?
Well, first I might try to ‘calibrate’ your printer.
First off, do make sure that the printer driver is not applying some sort of automatic “shrink to fit” scaling to fit the image on the printable area of the page. For example my PDF program has this:
If the X direction (printer head travel) is indeed accurate, but the Y direction not for example, you might try to see if the Y direction result is always off by the same scale factor. Print a bunch of different things such as lines and circles and measure.
If the scale factor is consistent - for example the scale factor you mentioned above of 97.5%, then you can scale the Rhino drawing in Y by the inverse factor in the Rhino print dialog. In the print dialog, at the very bottom under “Print Details” you have an X and Y scale factor you can adjust:
The only problem is that this setting does not stick between Rhino sessions, so you will have to set it every time you close and re-open Rhino.
If the printer is not consistent in scaling between prints, then, well, yes, you may need a different one. I don’t have any recommendations here, aside from really expensive flatbed-type printers which don’t move the paper through rollers, but instead have controlled travels on both the X and Y axes.
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It’s obviously being scaled to fit somewhere, I don’t think a printer’s going to be terribly ‘inaccurate,’ it couldn’t produce decent-looking photos if it wasn’t one heck of a lot more precise than 1/8" over 5"(so if it can’t…it’s not.)
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