Problem printing large sheets

I am trying to plot downloaded construction plans on an HP designjet 800 but get thick black lines horizontally across the sheet. The widths of the lines are not consistent. The lines do not appear when I plot the plans on 8.5 x 11 sheets, only when I try to plot them to scale on larger sheets.

I'm having the same problem. Currently I'm not hooked up to a printer, I just want to generate a pdf to send to my print house to see if we can use this program or not.
It does seem to be an issue with the borders... I also could not reduce the border size below 0.56 in.
What I did (pain in the butt) was to try setting up different fake printers until I got one that would let me set the border to be small enough to meet my needs. This is a pain, because I dont know how to set up a printer that isn't attached to my machine, so I'm only setting up printer through IP printing. I found the HP LaserJet 5Si /5si MX driver lets me set the border to 0.08. Better, but not perfect.
Most photographers I know want to fit as many images as possible onto a single contaact sheet, which is the most efficent use of the space and $. I understand wanting to automaticaly set the page border minimum to wahtever the printer reports it as... but this makes no sense for positioning images on a page relative to each other.
The solution to this would seem simple:
one fixed border setting for the page (derived from printer info) and one variable setting for the images.
I'm surprised that this isn't the case already... which leads me to believe that this is a bug. I'm going to experiment more to see what I come up with... this is an important part of my workflow and will be a major factor in whether I keep using Aperture.
on another note... right now I send my images to the printer as 250dpi jpeg files (their request... output is great on photo paper). These PDFs aren't what I need to begin with because photoshop reports the contact sheet pdf as being 200dpi. Any ideas on how to set the DPI of the output like I can in photoshop?
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