Standard laser and inkjet printers print with a deviation of about 3 - 6 mm. This means that if you instruct a printer to print something at 10 mm from the left side of the page, it will in effect be printed in between 4 and 16 mm from the left side. Because text on a form is about 1-2 mm high, this is a serious deviation, which will have to be corrected by calibrating the printer. Because of these deviations, we recommend the use of borderless printers. These printers can print from edge to edge of a page, and therefore have a zero mm deviation. Therefore it's not necessary to calibrate borderless printers.

So, if you're not using a borderless or dot matrix printer, you'll have to calibrate your printer at the first print you make. The calibration process will measure the deviation, and and take it in account when printing, so everything is printed at the right positions.


Calibrating a printer

1. Click Extra -> Printer calibration
2. Select the printer you want to calibrate, and click "Next"
3. Print the calibration page, and click "Next"
4. On the printed calibration page, measure the different forms with ruler, and input the x and y values of the points in the software. X means the distance between the left of the page to the left of the field. Y is the distance between the top of the page and the top of the field. Click "Next"
5. The printer should now be calibrated. You can print a test page in this step. If you now measure the points on this test page, they should be printed on their correct positions.
6. you can close the calibration wizard or calibrate another printer