Using PrintArea when printing?

[Guest]

Have never had to use printArea before... and not entirely sure I need to now, but am having some issues trying to print an image to a large format, roll fed, printer (HP DesignJet). The printer prints at 24" wide... It reports as so:

trace(printJob.pageWidth, printJob.pageHeight);

1700,2564

So, I do the standard:  page.width = printJob.pageWidth; page.scaleY = page.scaleX;

It's a square so when I trace page.width, page.height I get 1700,1700... so far so good.

However when I print, I get a good amount of the image cropped - on the right and bottom.

Tried setting printArea but it's not helping... and based on the docs I wouldn't think I need it:

If you omit the printArea parameter, or if it is passed incorrectly, the full area of the sprite parameter is printed.

[kglad]

is page's reg point at 0,0?

[Guest]

Do you mean the Sprite I'm printing? It's never even on stage... I create it, dump a bitmap into it, scale it, and then print it...

For a test, instead of printing, I've stuck the sprite on stage, and did a startDrag on it... it's the correct size, and it's all there.

[kglad]

it still has a reg point.  make sure the bitmap is added at 0,0.

[Guest]

I'm just adding the bitmap to the sprite... so by default it would be 0,0. Although I did explicity set it to 0,0 - makes no difference.

[Guest]

To verify it's not my image, I created a 1700x1700 white image - with a solid red border... prints exactly like mine. Cropped on right and bottom. Frustrating... printing through Photoshop with scale to fit works everytime.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Well... I got it. Sort of. Turning off printAsBitmap in the print options, prints full size properly. Though I am printing bitmaps and would prefer to use the higher quality printAsBitmap offers, but I can live without it for this.