Wrong printing sizes when using the second printer

Question

I'm using different printers: by default a small office printer and for special purposes a big roll plotter.

If I try to plot with Yed on the plotter, I always get printing sizes around 300 mm, although I select a bigger sheet size (affects both default paper sizes and custom sizes).

After some wasted sheets I decided to create a PDF file and printed the PDF correctly via Acrobat Reader.

I seems Yed can only handle the sheet sizes of that printer, which is specified as default printer at the start time of Yed.

Is my speculation correct? Is it possible to change that behaviour?

Answer 1

Well, on our test system with two printers (from two different manufactors) chosing the paper format works for both printers. However, printer support is very much hardware dependent which makes diagnosing (and fixing) printing problems very difficult.

You might try to following approach though:

1. Open the print preview ("File" -> "Print Preview").
2. Click "Page" and choose the desired paper size.
3. Click "Print", choose the desired printer and (just to be safe) check the paper size once more.

Comments

> You might try to following approach though:
> Open the print preview ("File" -> "Print Preview").
> Click "Page" and choose the desired paper size.
> Click "Print", choose the desired printer and (just to be safe) check the paper size once more.

Following your instructions I only got the list of paper sizes of the (small) default printer, but not the paper sizes of the printer I want to print on.
I specified "CUSTOM", went to "Print" dialogue, selected the big printer and selected now my wanted paper size ("Oversize ANSI D", =22x25 inch) .
But a microscopic page is printed again. :-(

I opened the "Page" dialog again and see still "Custom" as selected page size.
I opened the "Printing" dialog again and see "Custom 1: 8x11 inch" as selected page size.  :-(


It's been some years since I wrote my last printing Windows program, but I think the selection of the printer should be done before specifying the paper size.

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Re:
... printing Windows program, but ...

yEd is not a Windows application but a cross-platform Java application. Printing is (or rather has to be) done through Java's printing framework. Unfortunately, printing in Java is known to be problematic.

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> Unfortunately, printing in Java is known to be problematic.

It means: my printing problem is a permanent limitation?