[cups.general] Photosmart 2570 Reverse Print Order Not Working
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at srz.de
Fri Mar 23 05:38:22 PDT 2007
Jack Gillis wrote:
> Under FC6 with HPILP 1.7.2 installed and running, my Photosmart 2570
> does not print
> multi-page documents in the proper order in all cases.
>
> Printing from Firefox and Adobe produces prints the pages in reverse order,
> the last page first followed by all the pages with the first page last.
> Since the printer produces the pages face up in the output tray they are in
> the correct order for reading.
>
> However, Open Office Calc, Write and Gedit prints the first page first order
> so that the printed pages appear with the first page on the bottom face up
> and the last page on top and I have to arrange them in the proper order for
> reading.
>
> I used the HP Device Manager to set the 'reverse order' but it doesn't seem
> to take effect for Calc, Write and Gedit. Localhost:631 doesn't offer a
> chance to change the order.
>
> How can I get the order set to print multi-page documents in reverse order
> for all cases?
>
> Thank you very much.
OpenOffice as of version 2.x (2.1 is the latest) manages reverse order
printing by itself. If the printer's PPD offers a choice for face up
or face down, it must be selected by OO's print menu as well.
Helge
PS: I can't post an example, as I only have the german localized version
installed.
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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
H.Blischke at acm.org
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