Pdf printing not same in different printers

Hi,
We have a pdf file which different departments would be printing on different printer but on a pre-perforated sheet. But while testing we noticed that the pdf is not being printed same in all the printers. Can we force this somehow? Thanks for your suggestions.
Thanks.

Have you looked at the page scaling in the print dialog?

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