Eschema 7.0.7 and printing of schematic on linux only prints borders

Schematic
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Hi,
I’m running KiCAD 7.0.7 on Linux Mint. I’ve got a super simple schematic, but when I print to my brother Laser printer, I only get the outline of the schematic sheet. I’m printing US Letter size. Wierdly enough, I can plot to a .ps format file and then that prints just fine.

The printer is a Brother MFC-L2750DW and it prints just fine. So I suspect there’s something in the schematic where I’ve got a layer not setup to show or something. I vaguely remember reading about issues like this in past, but couldn’t find anything in the forum search tool which seemed relevant.

So this is more of a heads up, and not a super big complaint since I have a work around. I guess I can try to print to a file and then compare the differences between print and plot output.

KiCAD details.

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor x86_64 on x86_64
Version: 7.0.7-7.0.7~ubuntu22.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.1
FreeType 2.11.1
HarfBuzz 6.0.0
FontConfig 2.13.1
libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.16
Platform: Linux Mint 21.1, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, mate, x11
Build Info:
Date: Aug 13 2023 23:14:49
wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.74.0
OCC: 7.5.2
Curl: 7.88.1
ngspice: 38
Compiler: GCC 11.4.0 with C++ ABI 1016
Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON

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That is odd.

I have identical Kicad version and Mint OS version and print works on an Epson ET3700.

Does the schematic show in both the Kicad print preview and the Printer print preview?

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Maybe your printer ran out of “smoke coloured ink”? :crazy_face:

But seriously what do you get when you print to file then view the PDF? Is the schematic still missing? That might help locate the problem.

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Is there a difference between printing in B&W or color?

Also: KiCad V7.07 does not exist. Your full version info shows V7.0.7, so you should put that in the title of this thread.

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I’ll do some more testing and see if I can narrow it down. I suspect (after reading some other threads) that it’s a wierd interaction with my printer setup and KiCad.

Hmm… this is interesting. I’ve just opened up my project and pulled up the schematic. When I do Ctrl-P to print, and then click on the print preview button, I see my schematic, but I do NOT see the outline around the schemtic with the board info in the lower left. So when I close that preview and then hit print, I get the system print dialog. I then hit preview there and I see my design, but I don’t see the outlike and lower right corner info box like I do on the screen.

I wonder if the issue (now that I’m awake and looking more closely at the “plot” output I got last night, where my design shows up with a Size: A4, even though I’m pretty sure I changed my settings to be US Letter by default.

I need to go edit my project and kicad defaults to reflect my default printer paper size.

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Umm… I thought I wrote 7.0.7 in the subject and all my test?

In any case, I seem to NOW be able to print both the schematic and the board info. But it’s kinda random and wierd what’s giong on here. I’ll try to re-create this some more and see what I can find, but it would seem there’s something funky on Linux. Or it’s a simple ID10T error, or PEBKAC of course.

Love the tool and love what it let’s me do. I need to kick some more money into the project as a thank you.

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This box controls the printing of the sheet border and title block in the Print mode.

ksnip_20230905-094603

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