When printing drawings using the printbw600 [filename] command, I began
to notice that the printer has a tendency to enlarge the drawings slightly
and then crop them. This often produced strange lines leading nowhere
and omitted the border.
One possible solution to this problem is as follows:
- When your drawing is complete and ready to be converted to a plot
file, select Main -> View
- Essentially you want to shrink the size of your drawing slightly
and make sure it is centered, select Pan-Zoom -> Zoom Out
- Your drawing is now small and needs to be enlarged to slightly less
than its original size, Zoom-In is already selected so move
the mouse to the upper left hand corner of your reduced drawing and
pull a rectangle to the diagonal corner. Make sure the border around
the drawing is even all the way around so the print will be centered.
- Select Main View -> Done-Return
- Select Drawing -> Interface to resume the normal plot file
generation sequence.
- Finally when printing your plot file from the Unix Shell use the
lpr -Pme308b [filename] command instead of printbw600 [filename] for
drawings with borders.