PRINT HELP
Fix clipped, off-center or faint printouts
Change one setting at a time. Scale, clipping, page position and line visibility are different problems, so a single shrink-to-fit fix can make an exact-size resource worse.
A side of the design is missing
Confirm paper size and orientation in both the file and printer. Check whether the printer has an unprintable border. Use a supported file edition with safe margins; do not assume borderless mode preserves scale. If the template needs more printable space than the printer provides, stop rather than reduce a dimension-sensitive design without checking the consequences.
The whole design is too small or large
Review Actual size, Fit, custom scaling and multiple-pages-per-sheet settings. Print the calibration resource and measure it. If one dimension is correct and the other is not, do not apply a uniform percentage correction and assume the shape is repaired.
The pieces are the right size but shifted
Measure before judging by eye. A correct-sized page shifted within the sheet points toward feed or positioning behavior. For double-sided work, front/back displacement is a separate test. Do not move or distort the source template just to compensate for one unexplained feed result.
Thin lines are hard to see
Try the printer’s ordinary text/graphics quality setting and check ink or toner status. Draft/economy modes may make pale lines difficult to read. Printing from the PDF is preferable to a low-resolution preview. Keep a plain-paper proof before committing special stock.
Two-sided pages do not line up
Use a duplex-registration sheet and follow its own instructions. Confirm the binding/flip edge. A fold-alignment diagnostic and a trim-squareness diagnostic test different things. Record what you measured and repeat a trial before concluding that a reusable correction is valid.