Prints aren't coming out to scale

Hello! I’ve made the wahid vest pattern and I’m at the step where I need to print so I can make a mock-up. The issue I’m running into is that I cannot get the 2” corner to measure 2”. It’s been sitting at 1 7/8”. Currently I’ve tried adjusting the print settings, both scaling up to 130%, and reducing the margins. It’s not changing much at all, and I don’t know what else to try, does anyone have suggestions.

Hello and welcome to freesewing!

Not sure if you haven’t already tried this, but uncheck fit to page and set scale 100% at the print settings :sewing_needle:

I will try that, thank you!

I went to my settings, and that was the automatic setting. I did figure it out, though! I had to go into the printer dialog, and I adjusted the scale from there. I selected borderless and scaled to 103%.

How are you generating the pattern to print? I’ve had issues before with Firefox adding print margins automatically to pdfs if I generate it on any device other than my laptop.

Also please check what paper size PDF are you exporting to, and what paper size is loaded into your printer. If these aren’t the same, then it could cause scale problems.

I am exclusively using my laptop for the site. I figured out the problem, I accidentally clicked the wrong pdf size for the printer paper I have.

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That was the problem, thank you so much!

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