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

[Jack Gillis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helge Blischke" <h.blischke at srz.de>
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To: <cups at easysw.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [cups.general] Photosmart 2570 Reverse Print Order Not Working


> 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
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That seems reasonable.  Thank you very much.