Thanks for all the suggestions. The fun continues... :) I decided to go and hook up the Epson 880 to a Debian unstable machine (running 2.4.9) that I installed and that I've been successful at printing to an Epson 777. I went to the CUPS web administration tool, changed the printer driver type and then immediately sent an ASCII file, a PS file, and PDF file to the printer. Each and every document came out with the correct orientation (portrait)!
I didn't set up the other Debian machine (one where CUPS only prints landscape), but I now suspect that something is conflicting with the cups-gimp-print drivers and causing the re-orientation. Unfortunately, I have no idea what this may be. Also, I checked the working configuration's ppd file and it has a "LandscapeOrientation: Plus90" just as the machine that prints consistently in landscape mode. I'll pass along information if I figure out what's forcing the landscape orientation on the one machine. Pete On Tuesday 02 October 2001 05:27 pm, dman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:12:04PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > | * Pete Willemsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ... > > | Hi Pete, > | I don't know if it'll help, but here are my "ppd" and "cupsd.conf" > | files attached. THese surely work on my unstable system with an ESC 800 > | printer, just like yours. > > Cool. I think the > > *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90 > > line the PPD is what does it. The printer must default to landscape, > so the ppd tells the filter/driver to rotate the page by 90° so it > comes out portrait. Try "Plus270" ;-) -- if you want the paper to come > out with the bottom of the page first. > > -D > > > (BTW, I've been trying to get a Canon BJC-610 running on the network > lately so I'm interested in seeing how the various things work in > cups. I think I have a solution, but I can't test it until I go home > and have the printer to play with.)
