Problems with sheet border size when printing

[Lizziemakers]

I am using Windows 2023 Vectorworks and have started seeing an issue when printing. I have a sheet border set up to the A3 size but when I print it offsets slightly, the page outlines even move so that after I have printed everything is the wrong size compared to the print set up.  

 

Has anyone experienced this before? 

 

[Pat Stanford]

I can't follow your description.  Can you post some images showing the problem?

[Lizziemakers]

On 5/9/2023 at 2:13 PM, Pat Stanford said:

I can't follow your description.  Can you post some images showing the problem?

I've attached 2 images. Before I print, the page outlines are in line with my sheet borders, once I print they are unaligned and print unaligned too. Everything is set to A3 and I've double checked the sizes. This doesn't happen when I print to PDF.

 

Thank you for your help

[Pat Stanford]

Make sure your page size exactly matches with the printable area of the printer driver.  If you want the pages setup up as A1, then you either need to have a printer driver that requires no margins (maybe referred to as Boarderless), or you have to set the page size in the Page setup dialog box to give you a printable area that matches the area available after the page margins are selected in the Printer Setup.

 

Or the more traditional way in VW is to set up a separate Sheet Layer for each sheet and then use the Publish command to generate the drawing set when necessary.