ryuujin

Do you guys know why when I'm trying to print out a font in Illustrator 10 at exactly 1 inch high, the actual printout is less than 1 inch?

Can someone tell me asap please?

R0Y

lol.... U SUCK

ryuujin

bah shut up heheh

Devils_Edge

select "show rulers" in "view" on your toolbar...
make sure that your ACTUAL size reflects the 1 inch at the 100% view...

not sure if that will help...but hopefully it'll do something for ya...

imported_94EG6HB

Make sure there is no scaling in your print settings..

Devil's Edge is right...

AzimuthX

Who doesn't hate printing, because you can never expect what you want.

94EG6HB is right, make sure under Print Settings it is not scaled.

imported_ryanhook

How much of a difference in size is there? Most everything that I've printed from Illustrator, InDesign, Quark, Photoshop, and Acrobat is within 1 or 2 millimetres of the actual size.

If it's just a few millimetres difference, then it may have to do with the printer. Consumer level printers aren't as accurate as the presses used in the industry.

My inkjet is quite accurate (guess I'm just lucky). In Illustrator 10 there is an option similar to Acrobat to fit to page — do you have that turned on? It will shrink the page down to about 90% of actual.

As an alternate solution: Try saving the file as a PDF and opening it in Acrobat. Print it from Acrobat with the shrink to page option flagged off.

– Ryan

imported_ryanhook

It gets better as you get more experienced. I pretty much know exactly what my output will look like when it's printed — of course, a lot of it has to do with what it's being output to. An inkjet or laser printer is not going to give you as accurate colour reproduction as a professional printing press, and of course, the paper you output it on causes variations too. When you need accurate colour reproduction, that's when you consider adding Pantone colours.

Still, even the most experienced designers still need to go to press approvals to check the prints.

ryuujin

thanks guys, but it was none of the above

It was how I had to set my cap height of my font to 6 pica that was throwing me off

Figured it out

imported_ryanhook

LOL... human error, not computer error. Isn't that the usual problem? heh heh

I'm glad you figured it out.