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Nightmare trying to print landscape A4

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    • #66097
      Alex Rollo
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      Don’t know if anyone else has encountered this problem, or if there’s something I’m doing wrong. It may even be a conflict between the Adobe printer driver and my Xerox DC240 printer. The strange thing is, it’s not consistent, as SOME pages seem to print ok while others have to be rotated before they will print properly.

      If I can explain more fully. I have an A4 page set to landscape. When I press cmd the viewing box down bottom left, shows a picture of a large P lying on its back and the page around it is in the same direction. That indicates to me that the page orientation and the document orientation are in going in the same direction – BUT, when it comes out the printer the image is chopped off as the printer has tried to print the landscape image onto a portrait piece of A4 paper. I have tried all the rotation options in the print dialog boxes but nothing works.

      I usually have to select everything on the page, group it and rotate it 90 degrees, then choose portrait paper in the document setup panel. This is very cumbersome and is more so when there are multiple pages needing to be printed. Also, when any alteration is required to the page, everything has to be rotated back (it’s difficult to make alterations while lying on your side) and then the whole process repeated to enable it to be printed the correct way round.

      Any suggestions anybody?

    • #66250
      Sam Sharpe
      Member

      check your paper settings on the printer preferences or on the lcd of the printer as it can be down to what is specified on the printer when loading paper, it’s a printer setup issue not an InDesign issue. Try testing and then save the print preset and default to that. Check long edge/short edge details in the preferences.

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