Pages are printed upside down in InDesign

Ive encountered this problem many times and have a few solutions

1: If you have placed a scanned pdf and corrected its orientation in indesign back to portrait, your printers will interpret the original orientation of the pdf and rotate the page

Solution. Edit/Orient the pdf in Illustrator and resave, if it still persist export a hires tiff and replace in indesign

2: if you have created/copied vector shapes from illustrator into indesign and these vectors are broken/2 nodes not connected and then flip or transformed it also causes the printers OCR (i think thats what its called) to misinterpret the vector data and that leads to page flipping

Solution: make sure you vectors are clean unflipped shapes and effects saved as eps's and the placed in indesign

And if none of this work then start a new indesign file move section by section of the old indesign file into the new, print testing as you go along to find the problem areas and reset and recreate those.

Thirdly as mentioned above it could be an outdated printer driver that has conflicts with the network Mac language interpreter

Hard tellin' not knowin' ... but we can use a process of elimination to isolate the problem, then come up with a workable solution.

1. May go without saying, but to get it out of the way I will: all the pages in your InDesign documents are right-side up, right?
2. Since they likely are, print a troubled file to Adobe PDF, using the output settings for your Mac/Windows Adobe PDF driver. Open the PDF — do they all appear right-side up? Now print the PDF — do all the pages now print right-side up? If so, we can start isolating it to InDesign interacting with the print driver. The bonus is we've got an immediate workaround which gets you past your problem while further investigating the cause. If the problem continues ...
3. Print a long word processing file. It's unlikely, but you want to confirm that other programs don't print upside-down before you ...
4. Find another output device, whether it's in your shop or out at some vendor quick-print or office supply store. Print the PDF, then the InDesign file. If you have to take it out of house/outside your network, don't forget to package the InDesign file before sending it out to ensure you don't introduce other problems trying to print it out.

The results will let you isolate the problem between InDesign interacting with the printer driver, InDesign creating bad output files and the printer itself. If you could, please let us know the results and we can help isolate the problem with you and possibly help you correct it. There are lots of smart people around who can lend a hand.

Please let us know what you find out, and good luck.

Randy