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January 11, 2016
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Mixed media sizes in single job - 11x17 rotating 180 degrees

  • January 11, 2016
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I am having an issue with printing PDF files that contain mixed media sizes to multiple PostScript printers/MFPs: 1) letter portrait and 2) ledger landscape.  I have tested with PostScript drives to Ricoh, Kyocera, and Xerox systems with all 3 producing the same result (when printing via PCL driver, everything works correctly).  The basic issue is as that while both paper sizes exit the finisher with the 11" side leading, the 11x17 pages are upside down (i.e. rotated 180 degrees) when compared to the letter sized pages.  This makes it impossible to staple or hole punch the document in-line since all 11x17 pages must be manually rotated.

To take it a step further, I also have Fiery controller based printers where the very same job yields the correct result (tested Ricoh & Xerox).  Upon exploring the PPD file, I can see specialized code in the Fiery to rotate pages larger than letter sized, but I cannot figure out how to modify my non-Fiery PPD files to correct the issue.

I have also tested with just a Word doc and the same issue occurs.  My gut is that there is something in the PostScript definition that needs to be modified, but I cannot figure it out.

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Participating Frequently
January 11, 2016

One correction, when printing from Word the output is correct.  Also, utilizing most current version of Acrobat Pro DC 2015.009.20079

Inspiring
January 19, 2016

Fiery uses  their own procedure to change media and rotation

what you see in PDD is just call to internal procedure of Fiery and it resides inside the Fiery controller itself.

Are you sending the PDF directly to the printer or you use file=> print  

Adam

Participating Frequently
January 19, 2016

I am opening PDF and printing from Acrobat (File > Print).

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