[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 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.

Another possibility would be to edit the printer's PPD to
- cannot collate
- default output order reverse
(and faceup setting if necessary).
Then the pstops filter should do the reverse order
printing by default.

Helge

-- 
Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org