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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Laser Printer shrinks pcb size

From: Piers Goodhew <piers@...>
Date: 2010-04-24

I'm phenominally late to this party, but you are aware that Acrobat's default behaviour is "shrink to fit"? Turn that off and you should be in business (albeit missing some stuff at the sides if your pcb's really big, but that would be asking for trouble).

Being a snob, I don't totally trust windows for accurate printing, but between them Adobe and HP should have it all working nicely.

PG

On 24/04/2010, at 11:18 AM, Ben L wrote:

> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Leon Heller <leon355@...> wrote:
> > > On 22/04/2010 00:54, w6mikk wrote:
> > >> My old trusty HP LaserJet 5P printer slightly shrinks the printed pcb image on paper when I printed a pcb image from a PDF file. On screen pbc measures 5.2 cm (2 inch) on paper is 5.0. On screen measures 8.1 cm (3inch) and 7.7 cm on paper.
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