Printing Not to Scale

We are using Illustrator CS2 with a cadtools5 plug-in to draw scaled plans. Since upgrading to Leopard we have a problem with the final scale of our Epson print: it is off scale (close but not true). Anyone have similar experience?
We have tried different preferences in illustrator and Epson dialogue boxes.
Thanks

You might have to update each application, including Leopard. Sounds like a print driver issue. Does Leopard ship with the latest Epson driver? How much of a deviation are we talking about? Is it off horizontally or vertically or both? If you can figure out the deviation factor, you could try equal or unequal scaling in Illustrator ( as a temporary workaround ), like 100% vertical, 100.5% horizontal ( hypothetical ). But, it just seems inexcusable that there is now a deviation at all. Unfornately, you'll probably have to upgrade the plug-in, update Illustrator, and update Leopard. Real productive, fun stuff.

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