That confirms what I'm seeing as well. I can't reproduce this either, 
on XP sp2, connected to an obsolete Epson 600 (@360 or 600 dpi), 
neither do I see it on a state-of-the-art Epson R800. Laser printing 
to a LaserJet 4050 is also fine.

I experimented a bit changing the Constellation name font sizes last 
night and all the changes I did were reflected as-expected on the 
print. In the end I got my digicam out and took a set of photos of my 
screen and some close-up shots of sample prints using macro mode. 
I'll upload them to my ISP's webspace when I get home tonight and 
post the link.

All I can think of is that somewhere along the line the driver isn't 
being updated with the app values, and is defaulting to some factory 
setting. I get this issue from time to time when printing contact 
sheets from my digicam using Canon's PhotoRecord app. You go in and 
set it to best resolution and colours but when it prints, it prints 
as if were still set in normal mode. In this particular case my  
workaround is to do a page setup first selecting best, and then open 
the Epson driver utility and set to best in there as well. I find 
that if I miss this second step, it still prints in normal mode. I 
guess Canon's cr*ppy app doesn't actually update the printer driver 
if you override the default settings, even though it quite happily 
informs you that, yup, the next print will be in best mode - which it 
won't be.

Given the posts so far, some are fine - others are not, I'm inclined 
to suspect a printer driver issue could well be the cause. For those 
of you experiencing this problem, I'd suggest googling for driver 
issues for your particular printer model, and try upgrading the 
drivers to the latest versions, alternatively, and somewhat counter-
intuitively try installing previous versions, as new releases can 
introduce new bugs and not just fix old ones. 

Regards
Peter


--- In [email protected], Patrick Chevalley 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I cannot reproduce the "tiny font" problem. 
> I try on 300 and 600 dpi HP laserjet, 360 and 720 dpi Epson without 
problem. 
> Can you try with Pdfcreator at various resolution to test if the 
problem is the print driver or other setting.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
> I use this software a lot to save paper during the development. 
> 
> Also check if the Resolution displayed in the CDC print setup 
dialog is the right one.
> 
> About the 122Mb print file I probably mess something in the last 
version. This is the size of a 32bit bitmap 8"x11" at 600 dpi. 
> Normally the chart is draw directly to the printer to avoid that. 
But for the screen display we use an intermediate bitmap to avoid 
flickering. It is wrongly used here.
> 
> Patrick
>







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