Landscape printing

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Jul 28 12:14:09 PDT 2011


Ray Stacey wrote:

>> Ray Stacey wrote:
>>
>> > We are running cups 1.4.7 on Solaris 10. I'm trying to print a
>> > postscript file from our application using the command lp -o landscape
>> > -o PageSize=Legal -d treekill2 INV-R200.r01.17206.ps.
>> >
>> > The file prints on legal paper, however the first page is landscape and
>> > each subsequent page is rotated 90 degrees. So the first page is fine,
>> > the 5th page is fine, the 9th page is fine ....
>> >
>> > Any ideas??
>>
>> What make and model is the printer?
>> How is it configured?
>> is there a *cupsFilter line in the printer's PPD?
>> is there a *LandscapeOrientation: xxxx
>> where xxxx is either Plus90 or Minus90 in the PPD?
>>
>> Helge
>>
> It's an HP 8100. It is configured using the ppd file from the cups
> website. THere is no *cupsFilter and LandscapeOrientation is Plus90.
> 
> I tried the same command with a generic postscript sample file and I'm not
> seeing the rotation problem. That means there is something wrong with the
> postscript output from our application. No idea what it could be, I don't
> know postscript language at all.

Then post (an URL to) a sample file and do the following:
cupsctl --debug-logging
print the sample file
cupsctl --no-debug-logging
post the portion of the /var/log/cups/error_log that contains the messages
related to the test job.

Helge





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