I created a PCB layout in eagle, and it looks fine on the print preview.
I print it out, and instead of my traces curving as they should, it appeared as a collection of rectangles that followed the path of my cirtcuit. Imagine if you needed to draw the circuit but all you hade were individual squares the width of the trace to work with, and imagine what the corners would look like, and you get the idea.
Gets weirder. I printed to .pdf, and the .pdf looked great. Printed the .pdf from the adobe viewer, and got the same wrong results. This makes me think that its being printed as some sort of vector drawing instead of a bitmap, and the driver isn't getting it right.
Next clue, if I open the .pdf in photoshop, I can print it with good result. That sorta confirms my theory I think, as I'm sure photoshop turns it right into a bitmap. I guess that's a solution of sorts, but I really want to eliminate the extra step.
My printer is a DELL 1720dn I was given for free. I am using windows 8 (ugh). Any thoughts?
I print it out, and instead of my traces curving as they should, it appeared as a collection of rectangles that followed the path of my cirtcuit. Imagine if you needed to draw the circuit but all you hade were individual squares the width of the trace to work with, and imagine what the corners would look like, and you get the idea.
Gets weirder. I printed to .pdf, and the .pdf looked great. Printed the .pdf from the adobe viewer, and got the same wrong results. This makes me think that its being printed as some sort of vector drawing instead of a bitmap, and the driver isn't getting it right.
Next clue, if I open the .pdf in photoshop, I can print it with good result. That sorta confirms my theory I think, as I'm sure photoshop turns it right into a bitmap. I guess that's a solution of sorts, but I really want to eliminate the extra step.
My printer is a DELL 1720dn I was given for free. I am using windows 8 (ugh). Any thoughts?