[cups.general] always landscape

[Helge Blischke]

Well, I'm not quite sure if I understand what you are going to achieve
in the end.
If you want to print via CUPS to your Dymo printer, your should create a
printer instance
using the CUPS supplied PPD as the "driver" for the printer on your Win
box and use samba on your
UNIX/Linux box to pass the print job to CUPS. As you use Win89se, you 
either need an .inf file
(when using the M$ supplied PostScript printer driver) or to use the
Adobe printer driver.

Helge


Paonia wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 07:55, Helge Blischke wrote:
> > Paonia wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:43, Helge Blischke wrote:
> > > > Paonia Ezrine-N'Shaiha wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a printer that I need to always print to in landscape. The
> > > > > application I use to print to this printer does not have a landscape
> > > > > option (it is closed source and they have been asked to fix this but
> > > > > have not yet done so). I am wondering if there is a way to always have
> > > > > it print in landscape.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Paonia
> > > >
> > > > If oyu post (an URL to) a sample file, I could give you advice how to
> > > > modify
> > > > the PS code accordingly, e.g. by an additional CUPS filter.
> > > >
> > > > Helge
> > >
> > > Try these:
> > > http://www.northbranchgroup.com/dymo/label1.ppd
> > > and
> > > http://www.northbranchgroup.com/dymo/labelsample.ps
> > > Thanks,
> > > Paonia
> >
> > Thanks for the sample files. Could you please post some more information
> > on how the
> > print jobs are created?
> Of course.
> I may have created the file in a less then ideal way. The label is
> generated by my tax application (Ultra Tax). Ultra Tax run under
> Windows. I am running win98se. I for test image I had Ultra Tax print to
> an apple laser writer. I set up the laser writer to write to a file.
> This is how I have been capturing ps files from Ultra Tax. If there is
> another way for me to capture the output that would be more helpful
> please let me know.
> 
> > Obviously the PPD you posted is *not* the PPD the print job has been
> > created with
> > (it is a PPD for a language level 1 LaserWriter), and the page
> > dimensions of the PS file
> > do not conform to any of the page size options listed in the PPD file.
> >
> Sadly Ultra Tax gives me no control over page size/orientation,etc which
> is why the file is the wrong size.
> 
> > Obviously the PostScript creating application runs opn a Windows box,
> > but I can't figure out
> > on which one. Please tell what Win version, what PostScript driver etc.,
> For this test I used the apple writer drive. Under normal circumstances
> would use the Dymo Labelwriter 330 driver which is the driver for this
> printer in question.
> 
> > and what label size
> > is requested.
> >
> 1 1/8inches by 3.5 inches
> 
> Thank you,
> Paonia
> 
> > Helge

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