Thanks for the reply prkos, i figured out what i was doing wrong. There is a feature that i did not set in printing preferences ("enable maximum dpi setting").

Should i continue to use microsoft paint to print out my scaled drawings or is there something better to use?

I scaled up a drawing in inkscape to (using the right units) and i printed it out with microsoft paint. It came out 1 inch shorter on the height and the length, what am i doing wrong?

I am using inkscape .47 if that helps.