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

[Helge Blischke]

Jack Gillis wrote:
> 
> ----- 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.
>> -- 

>>
> 
> 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.

I suspect there is no choice for reverse order printing in calc.
But if you first select print preview, you will know how many
pages it will print, the you may select the pages to print
in descending order (page numbers separated by semicolons, I think).

Helge

PS: perhaps ons should file a bug to the OO folks.
-- 
Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org