[cups.general] Photosmart 2570 Reverse Print Order Not Working

[Jack Gillis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helge Blischke" <h.blischke at srz.de>
Newsgroups: cups.general
To: <cups at easysw.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [cups.general] Photosmart 2570 Reverse Print Order Not Working


> 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.
> -- 
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blischke at acm.org
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Thank you very much Helge.  I have oo 2.07 and can find where to select 
reverse order in Write but not in Calc.  Can you point me to it?

Thanks again.