Truncated print forms

Recently I ran into an issue with SDScribe™ forms that were printing with some of the text truncated at the left margin. Since the forms themselves had not changed in a while, it appeared that some other aspect of my workstation setup had changed.

Eventually I narrowed the issue down to a “virtual” print driver from Parallels, Inc. The driver is a component of Parallels Desktop 17 that allows a Windows operating system residing on a Macintosh host to use the host’s print drivers to generate printed forms. The driver may have changed in some way that affected the printed margins.

To correct the issue, I installed “real” drivers for my HP and Canon printers directly in Windows 10, and turned off the “Share Mac printers with Windows 10” feature in Parallels Desktop.

Another way to address a truncated margins issue is to reduce the scaling percentage to some value below 100 percent. Or, if you have a Windows PDF driver installed, you can print to pdf rather than to paper. Then open the resulting pdf document (double-click), and when printing to paper, select the “Scale to fit” option.