Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Stranger printer happenings? Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:02:52 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 17:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9358cda03e1e0dfd3c4b757daa608707"; logging-data="15148"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18BQOMLnWPq/PJ078Eg8tIIKyKI5vrXDv4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:NdTYCAVHa6u1pBNzQYm9rrg2JPk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27434 On 1/31/2014 6:34 PM, Knute Johnson wrote: > I wrote a little program for the local animal shelter. The program > prints a poster for lost or found animals. When I wrote the program and > tested it at home on my printer, an HP LaserJet, it worked fine. When I > got to the site to test the program, the result from the printer > appeared to be scaled up by a factor of 2 in the x direction. The What printer (vendor & model) does the shelter have, and what printer driver? What OS are you each using? Contact the printer manufacture with this information and ask about possible incompatibilities. There maybe other issues (bugs) or APIs which you are unaware that could be affecting output format. You can try talking to Oracle too but generally I've found them unresponsive to small developers. Could you post a sample of the printer code? Stefan raises a good point that the issue could be in your code as well.