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Re: Word 97 landscape upside down from HP printers
Subject:Re: Word 97 landscape upside down from HP printers From:"Gerry Barnes-Hampton" <ghampton -at- fox -dot- uq -dot- net -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:29:54 +1000
Meg,
This is just a guess but.... Is your HP printer set to print in reverse
order or some funny optional Printer Setting. I had a similar problem with
PDF files with my HP because my PREVIOUS (Canon) printer was set to print
Last Page First. Figure that one!
Geraldine Barnes-Hampton
Technical Writer, Explain IT
Brisbane, Australia
ghampton -at- uq -dot- net -dot- au
From: Meg H <aiki4us -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: Word 97 landscape upside down from HP printers
> Cross posted to Techwr-L and Word-PC
>
> Hi all --
>
> I'm at my wit's end. I have a Word 97 SR-2 file that
> has mixed portrait and landscape pages. When I print
> it, the landcape pages come out upside down (the
> bottom of the page is to the left, instead of to the
> right) on HP DeskJet 970c and HP DeskJet 820c
> printers. Same thing happens when I distill to a pdf
> and then print. The pages print fine on an Apple
> 16/600 laser printer. I've tried this on both Windows
> NT 4 and Windows 98.
>
> I've searched the Microsoft and Hewlett Packard sites
> and the Techwr-L and Word-PC archives to no avail.
>
> Does anyone know how to get these pages to print
> properly on HP printers?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -- Meg
>
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