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I am currently having an annoying problem where anything I print in Mac OS X 10.8.2 is scaled to 3%, and I cannot seem to change this through the printing menu.

I've attached a picture of my printing presets which shows that the scaling is stuck at 3%, though I cannot reset the scaling from this menu. The presets window shows the "scaling" option under "Copies & Pages" but this does not show up in the printing drop-down menu... so I'm stuck.

Does anyone know how to change this setting?

Printing Presets Printing Menu

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What printer is it? those are the printer settings not OS x. – Buscar웃 Apr 23 '13 at 18:20
    
The settings are the same no matter which printer I choose. I actually do not even want to print. I only save the document as a PDF, but I can't since everything is scaled to 3%. – Berk U. Apr 23 '13 at 18:28
    
The second picture is the default Print Menu that pops up in MS Word / TextWrangler... so I'm assuming that it's the same for all OS X apps. I can change it in Preview, but that's about it. – Berk U. Apr 23 '13 at 18:30
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Here is what I did.

In for example TextEdit...

I used the Page set up!

In there you can adjust the scaling

Now go to the print and check you settings in show presets, current.

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This looks promising! Where is the "page setup" in TextEdit? – Berk U. Apr 24 '13 at 2:03
    
Found it! Page Setup is under the File Menu. This is honestly something that just has to be fixed in OS X. – Berk U. Apr 24 '13 at 2:05

Your first step is to try printing to .pdf from a [virgin] User Account.

Failing that test, I would reinstall the O.S.

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