move from win98se to winXP results in different prints

[MattShokoff]

Originally I used my psc 1315 with win98se ... and it was great.

Example:  using paint.exe (win98se's paint program) if I drew a square that was 96x96 (pixels) then it would print a square that was exactly 1 inch by 1 inch.

I recently had to move to winXP.  I've noticed that he same 96x96 pixel square now results in a printout of a RECTANGLE that measures 15/16 inch wide by 14/16 of an inch tall.  (nearly a full 1/16th of an inch off in the wide vs tall length).

As best as I can tell, it isn't a problem with windows paint.  Its either a driver issue or related to how printer setup options are handled in XP.

Example:  win98se doesn't have these options in the printer setup:

CENTERING: 

horizontal [ ]

vertical [ ]

SCALING:

adjust to fit : [100%] normal size

fit to : [ ] by [ ] pages

If I print with the CENTERING:  horzizontal and vertical options checked, I still get the off-sized 15/16" wide x 14/16" tall rectangle.  I think the main issue is the SCALING option.  Somehow its very existance alters the output (even when set to 100%, which should result in a "print it as it is, do not alter it any" type result).

Windows XP reports the printer as "1310 series" ... I seem to recall win98se showing it exactly as a "PSC 1315 all-in-one" (but I can't be sure of that). 

If anyone knows how to trick XP into using the old win98se drivers, or to disable the SCALING option I'd appreciate it.

[MattShokoff]

Small explanation:  see, I design cut-and-fold paper models.  Precision is required if the parts are to print out right so that the resulting boxes/shapes form up nicely.

So doing a 1-inch cube required 6 squares (each drawn at 96x96 pixels)

After manually re-drawing the lines in paint, I managed to find that the new sizing is 102 pixels wide by 108 pixels tall (to get a 1 inch by 1 inch square). 

Its both odd and annoying.  I mean when it was 96 pixels by 96 pixels (in win98se's paint) it was easy to do any shape I wanted.  If I wanted a 1/4inch square it was a nice 24x24 pixels.  Yet now I've got to do TWO VERSIONS of all my work... one which uses proper squares (96x96) for people to print from, and a seperate manually recalculated/stretched version for my own test-construction of the model (otherwise when I cut it out and try to form it up it .

The problem isn't XP's paint program.  I used the start>run command and pointed it to the still-existing paint program from my old win98se directory and it loaded fine and printed up off-size too... so it has to be how the printer driver works in XP.

[MattShokoff]

might not be the driver in a way... seems if I change screen resolution the resulting print size changes too...

Never had this problem in win98se... though I always heard XP had some "strange bugs".

ex

screen set to:  1280 x 1024

96x96 pixel square prints as 15/16 inch wide by 14/16 inch tall  (square ends up slightly off)

ex

screen set to:  1280 x 960

96x96 pixel square prints as 15/16 inch wide by 15/16 inch tall  (actual square when print-out measured!)