Oh, wow! Okay, yeah. When I first got mine I was very confused about the offset, but luckily we have great members in the forum that have outlined ways to account for this. @cynd11’s way worked wonders for me A way to improve object placement
What I did instead of using graph paper (because I didn’t have any) was draw cross hairs onto a blank paper, and then with very low settings engraved a cross hairs image onto the same page. From there I was able to figure out how far and how many spaces my particular machine needed adjusting. As others have stated as well, having your image premade and preplaced on an artboard in your preferred editing program, but this isn’t always viable so falling back onto the method detailed in the post above is always nice.
I wish you luck in your future endeavors, as well as looking forward to seeing more posts by such an experienced artist!