![]() Since you are printing from AutoCAD to PDF and then to paper, you have 2x as many sources of error to deal with. Then, instead of printing, you can save the file as a PDF. ![]() Then determine an appropriate scale to correct for X and if necessary a different scale for Y. With AutoCAD, go to the Output tab, then select Plot as if you were sending the file to print. There are some terrible rulers out there. ![]() There's no reason to believe the printer head feed has a constant speed it could vary as it traverses the page. No point measuring 20mm when the paper is 200 mm wide find out how inaccurate the WHOLE sheet is. If I had to do this to make it as accurate as possible I would first prepare in CAD a drawing with a series of squares on the same sheet and fill the whole sheet with them. Getting to print 1:1 scale as accurately as, say, 1.000 : 1.000 can be difficult because the X error rarely matches the Y error. You can type sc or scale and press the spacebar/enter button, or in the ribbon, in the modify tab, find the Scale button (Its a blue square with a smaller. It took some time but I got it down to +/- 0.2" per 100 inches. Never tried to calibrate a printer, but I have calibrated a HP 36" wide plotter.
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