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Adam W

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 11, 2010
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Evening all.

First of all computer/printer spec:

Mac OS X 10.4.11
Illustrator CS3
HP K8600

I am trying to follow the steps in the video shown in the following link to digitally wrap a label around an object. All seems pretty simple to me.

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-wrap-logo-around-photo-photoshop-15913/

So I start by creating a grid in Illustrator. Using the Rectangular Grid Tool I set the width to 120mm and the height to 170mm. I set Horizontal dividers to 11 and vertical dividers to 16. Effectively creating a grid with 10mm sections.

I print it out, no scaling or bordeless printing selected.

The printed size does not correlate the the specified size in Illustrator. The overall grid size is 122mm x 173.5. Clearly incorrect.

I did some searching on google and on here and found the following link:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/710407/

Although very helpful, It hasn't resolved my problem. I have tried saving to a .pdf and .eps file and printed it but it made no difference.

So, what are peoples thoughts on this?

Why should there be a scaling difference?
 
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