OK - I wasn't sure if I should be posting about this, because its not guitar related and its kind of a dumbass problem. Anyway, I have a brand new printer. So far, the only thing I've tried to print on it is a full scale pdf of this pickguard. Here's what's happening -
So, I downloaded and installed Adobe Reader. I open it, select the pdf that I want to print, and set my parameters to print full scale (100% size, full scale with 11 x 17 tiled output). All of that is what you see in the background of the attachment. If you open the attachment, you can see the window from Adobe that I'm talking about. Then when I hit the print icon expecting it to print (while in the Adobe Reader window), I get another window from my printer that appears over the Adobe window. I've attached a screen shot showing what I'm talking about. It's not giving me the option to print out as a tiled 11 x 17. The Adobe window is in the background and is now mostly obscured by the HP print window. No matter what I do, all I can get out of this is a scaled down drawing on 8-1/2 x 11. paper. There is no option here to print full size.
Hope I've described this properly. I'm thinking I'll need to ask someone at HP or Adobe about this.
I haven't tried opening my CAD program to see if I could print straight from there, yet. I don't think I could handle the frustration right now, so I'll try it tomorrow morning.
what I see when I go to print the pdf in adobe reader.odt