[K12OSN] Re: CUPS update breaks landscape printing from OS X to HP printers

[Rita Gibson]

Jon Harder wrote:
> Jon Harder wrote:
>   
>> The bad news is that users on OS X (10.3 and 10.4) have lost
>> the ability to print landscape documents. It doesn't
>> do the 90 degree rotation. I use mainly HP printers (on old
>> Apple 8500 worked fine). PCs do not seem to be affected.
>>     
>
> I solved this problem by writing a CUPS backend filter (I used ruby)
> that strips out the "rotate" and "translate" postscript commands
> just before the print job is submitted to the printer. I'm still
> testing, but I looks like it is working without any bad side effects.
>
> This also lays the ground work for fixing some other printing problem
> I have been having. Accellerated Reader is notorious for not allowing
> one to choose a printer, so it sends reports to the default printer,
> which for Macs is the last printer used. This is often an expensive
> color printer. Now those printouts are automatically redirected to
> a monochrome printer.  Next I want to do something about the incompatiblity
> caused when Photoshop prints to HP printers using binary mode for postscript.
>   
Jon:

What does this "Photoshop prints to HP printers using binary mode for 
postscript look like? Characters on the first line of page after page 
after page?

This happens sometimes and I never know how to describe the problem in 
order to find out how to fix it.

Thanks,

Rita Gibson
RMSELTech