wrong landscape printing on some but not all printers

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This is a followup to my posting with
Subject: Canon IP3000 wrong landscape printing
Message ID: v5e7j1df5e441c94hkg9e5gl5m5u7uqep4@4ax.com

As I now found the problem affects two independent printer drivers, I
can no longer assume it's a Canon printer problem, so I post the updated
text with a new subject under a new thread.

I wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have a Canon Pixma IP3000 which first worked flawlessly.
> Operating system is Windows XP Pro with all available updates.
> As I yesterday printed a Word document which starts in portrait and has
> some pages set to landscape, the printer printed the landscape pages in
> turned by 180°. The same document had printed OK some weeks before. Same
> with a test document created from scratch for testing switching from
> portrait to landscape.
> Same document prints correctly on HPLJ4000 (with pcl as well as PS
> driver), on another PS printer, and on the Adobe Acrobat distiller.
But also on the Fax printer driver (not MS Fax but a commercial fax
software having its own printer driver) the landscape pages come out
rotated!
The MS Office Document Image Writer correctly creates landscape pages as
landscape oriented bitmaps. -- I had a slight suspicion that the effect
started with installing this pseudo printer driver, so I had a look into
it. I also uninstalled this pseudo printer driver, but this didn't
change the effect.

The effect occurs with printing from all Windows applications - I tested
it with Notepad, PFE (another Ascii editor), Wordpad, all Office apps,
and Paintshop Pro.
Only when printing from Adobe Acrobat, the Canon IP3000 prints the
landscape pages correctly.
However Acrobat may be unaffected by the existing problem because I
think Acrobat renders each page by itself and sends it to the printer as
a portrait mode graphics stream.

Does anyone know if there is a switch in Windows or in the printer
driver, perhaps in the windows registry, which controls this behavior?


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