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

[John Gillis]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007, Helge Blischke wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Let me toss in an additional tidbit of info here, nothing to do with cups. 
> Acrobat reader has this ability in the last couple of linux releases.  It 
> works for small number of pages pdf documents, but in one about 40 page 
> document I printed about a month ago, one side, and I now forget which 
> side, repeatedly came out in fwd order even though backwards was checked.  
> I eventually gave up and printed it in fwd order, with page 1 face down 
> in order to get a good copy, but I probably fought with it for at least 
> 80 wasted sheets of paper.  Kprinter I believe also suffers from this.
>
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Hmm. For some reason that doesn't surprise me. I think I will go out and 
buy stock in some paper company for I, too, have wasted a lot of paper.

Thanks again for all you help.