landscape printing from mac osx

Neal neal at tippett.com
Fri Jan 4 08:42:13 PST 2008


I haven't had any replies yet. Did I post under the wrong category? Should I post this under cups.bugs instead? Any help would be appreciated.


> I am currently trying to get a Xerox Phaser 8560N to print in landscape from a mac, and it is having the same issue. Anybody have any ideas?  Any help would be appreciated.
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> > I have an issue with printing landscape from my mac via cups. It seems some ppd files work better than others, but none I've tried are able to successfully print in landscape. I'm currently using the foo2zjs HP-LaserJet_1022.ppd for my hp 1022n printer and it prints in landscape but the text gets cutoff.
> > Example:
> > I try print the following text from textedit:
> > "This is a test print from machinename."
> >
> > but what gets printed in landscape is the following:
> > "s a test print from machinename."
> >
> > It has no problems printing in portrait mode.
> >
> > This problem does not occur when printing to our Lexmark Optra M410 from a mac. The problem also does not occur when printing from a linux machine to  either printers.
> >
> > My setup is:
> > cups server: Linux 2.6.20
> > cups version: 1.3.3
> > printing from mac os 10.4.8
> >
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