Hi,
I am having a problem. When I print from Coreldraw 7 to the HP Designjet 500; I am losing about 5mm for every meter. In essence, when I print 7m, my printout is 3cm less!
Is Coreldraw miscalculating? What's going on?
Have you run the Advance Calibration on the printer using your regular media?
Thanks for your response Eskimo.
I ran an advance Calibration on the printer mid January when I changed the printheads. It is my suspicion that it might be the printers fault. It usually displays size in inches then I choose "metric". Somehow it is calculating wrong (most likely rounding up decimal places); however, those decimal places are adding up and making me look stupid when my print is 3cm less.
I thought I would ask on the Coreldraw forum to see if Coreldraw members have experienced similar and how they solved it. Or even if to check if coreldraw is the one responsible for the miscalculation.
I run a DesignJet 450C from Draw and have never had that problem. I do get paper stetching when I move the print from a dry office to a cold damp workshop, but that is only ever across the roll, not along it.
Hi Hywel
Do you print 7m or more? I have never noticed a problem when I print less than 4m (because the difference is usually negligible). There are noticeable discrepancies with the ones more than 5m and I get taken to task about it. So I condcuted my own test printing samples of 1m; 2m; 3m; .......10m. I then manually measured each one myself with a measuring tape and even double checked with another measuring tape.
I am not sure if it is the printer or Coreldraw. On the prit window, the printer's default setting is in inches and I change to metric so I can work in millimetres. (The Printer could be calculating with a rounded up value here).
We are all familiar with Coreldraw's discrepancy also. When we have ratio lock on and we change one dimension of a rectangle, we suddenly see decimal places that are not exact. eg 3000mm becomes 2999,99995 or something. (so is Coreldraw calculating wrong here?)
Small discrepancies do not matter when we work with stuff less than a metre but what about larger designs?