Cropped Chart

On the printed chart, is having squares on the edges cropped bad... appear as rectangles instead of squares?
I see the instructions say, "When framing the chart at the edges of the image frame, leave a small amount of visible white between the checkers and the edge of the frame." That is hard to do when the edge squares are not printed in full.
I think I wasted a very large print.
Thanks,
Drew

It depends on how bad the clipping is on the printed chart. A small amount of clipping is tolerable. To save you time later, I recommend leave some page margin's when you do your print -- making sure that the content of the chart falls inside the printable area of the printer.

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