Hi Chris,
Apologies for the delay in replying to your post.  The issue was that the print output applied the margins you set to the printable area of the page, not the whole page; most physical printers have areas around the edges of the page to which they cannot print, due to paper feed mechanisms and other hardware considerations (which is why you did not see the issue in PDF output which, being virtual, has no non-printable area). 
I am pleased to say that we have published an update to Stardraw Design 7.1 that resolves the issue by disregarding the non-printable area - the margins you set in the print dialog will now be applied as if measured from the page's edge. 
Note, however, that if you set very small margins, and depending on the printer in use, the edges of a drawing may be cropped since parts of the drawing may be in the non-printable area.
Click here for full details of the update.


Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com

I'm just wondering is there any reason why it is that everything I print is shifted to the right and downward? It's becoming a bit of an issue here. The default margins end up with an off centre image and the only way I have found to rectify it is to create a custom range something around top: 0.46, left: 0.46, bottom: 1.17 and right: 1.68 (having said that originally I entered 0.5, 0.5, 1.2, 1.7 which after a number of prints ended up as these!) However this only works for our A4 laser; a whole new range of values has to be entered for the A3 as this still ends up with a ridiculous off-set image.

BUT I can send it for PDF creation with minimal, uniform, margins (0.5 all round) and it is perfect. I can then print from that file a perfect print. It's a massive pain if that's the only route I can go to get a decent output.

This is across three different printers all from a the same PC. The printers are all different manufacturers using their own drivers, although I did try the Microsoft variant on one but no better. PC's running Windows 8.1 Pro.

Am I doing something wrong?

Chris.