Airprint - Landscape vs. Portrait printing

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Jbm2080 Author

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Airprint - Landscape vs. Portrait printing

If you print a landscape PDF file through the Airprint function there is no options to print Portait vs. landscape. This shrinks the document considerable and can make it unreadable.

Is there any way to rotate this item prior to printing? Is there an airprint setting to always print the pdf's based on their orientation?

Ipad, iOS 4

Posted on Dec 6, 2010 11:17 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 11, 2017 10:53 AM in response to HP Mac Architect

It's 7 years later and iOS 10 still can't change orientation when printing. Tried to print a square photo to my HP 6830 and my iPhone 7+ crops and fills the photo to completely fill a 8.5x11 piece of paper. There's no options to change scale or orientation.

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Answer 2

Dec 6, 2010 12:47 PM in response to Jbm2080

What printer are you using? What iOS app are you using to print the PDF? Printing landscape PDF's from Mail to my HP Envy 100 prints the document so the long edge matches the long edge of the paper and fills the page correctly.

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gisley

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Dec 7, 2010 5:29 PM in response to Jbm2080

I am having the same problem. When I use airprint on my iPhone to a hp laserjet pro cp 1525. It prints in portrait I would like it to print in landscape.

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Jbm2080 Author

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Dec 8, 2010 6:02 AM in response to gisley

I am using IOS 4.2 on the ipad with the airprint function.

When someone emails you an attachment such as a spreadsheet that is 8.5" tall by 11" Wide. If they send it to you landscape when you print the file. Airprint does not give you the landscape / portrait function. It will just shrink the landscape file to fit in the portrait print layout.

SOLUTION - However i did just receive the Goodreader update yesterday 3.2.0

Which allows you to print direct from goodreader. Within the goodreader you can rotate the page prior to pressing print and correct this issue.

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Answer 5

Dec 8, 2010 9:22 PM in response to Jbm2080

jbm2080,

Which HP Printer do you have? I want to make sure we don't have a problem in a specific device, and if we do, get it fixed.

Just trying to help.

Andrew

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Answer 6

Dec 8, 2010 9:24 PM in response to gisley

gisley,

I'll look into this.

Just trying to help.

Andrew

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Answer 7

Jbm2080 Author

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Dec 9, 2010 5:59 AM in response to HP Mac Architect

I have had the same experience with 2 of the HP IPAD printers

Both HP Laserjet products:

HP LJ Pro CM1415fnw Color MFP

and

HP LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer

I do not think it is the printer software unless HP is responsible for the Airprint Driver. But in business situations a lot of times you will have spreadsheets which are displayed landscape.

when you send these to an individual with an IPAD you want it to show with the long edge on the bottom to correctly fit the ipad screen. The problem is that Airprint does not translate to the printers.

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Answer 8

Dec 9, 2010 2:04 PM in response to Jbm2080

Just to provide an update, we have reproduced the issue internally and reported it to Apple.

Andrew

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Answer 9

googull

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Mar 17, 2011 10:26 PM in response to HP Mac Architect

It's been a while and new iOS update out - anyone get this to work properly yet or is the manual workaround via GoodReader still the only way to fix this this challenge?

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Fred-M-

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Mar 18, 2011 11:38 AM in response to googull

Googull-

Since GoodReader is capable of changing page orientation, the problem is most likely application oriented rather than AirPrint oriented. The Mail program is either printing a spreadsheet, or it is handing the task off to another application. Either could provide a rotation option but doesn't.

I have a similar problem printing images. The only option is a snapshot-size print, although it seems to choose landscape or portrait appropriately. I reported the problem to Apple soon after iOS 4 came out for the iPad.

Apple is so wildly successful with the iPad, that fixing applications appears to be taking a back seat to hardware development. They should be thoroughly embarrassed by several different printing problems, but show no sign of wanting to resolve them. In my opinion, they should abandon AirPrint, or at least provide an alternate set of popular printer drivers including PostScript. Of course that won't help if a rotation option is not available in the Application!

Fred

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Answer 11

Mar 21, 2011 6:22 PM in response to googull

iOS 4.3 seemed to fix this landscape document problem to the HP AirPrint lasers. Anyone experiencing the problem of landscape documents printing incorrectly should update to iOS 4.3.

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Answer 12

googull

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Mar 21, 2011 8:15 PM in response to Fred-M-

Fred*M - you are right - my problem appears to be with GoodReader. I am able to properly print the same PDF from mail in landscape without issue. I will post a request to the folks at Good.iWare Ltd to address this.

The AirPrint support in the latest release of NUMBERS is superb. Tons of control.

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Answer 13

asgardnz

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Mar 21, 2011 9:32 PM in response to Jbm2080

GoodReader still prints a landscape document in squashed portrait form - using iOS 4.3 and GoodReader 3.5.0 for iPad or 3.5.1 for iPhone. However, if I 'send' the document to Evernote (on iPad or iPhone) it is printed correctly in landscape form. I am using AirPrintActivator 2.0b6 to get my iMac to print from the iPhone/iPad to my networked Brother HL2700-CN.
Contrary to previous comments, this seems to suggest firmly that the problem is in the GoodReader court - not Airprinting per se. I propose commenting to the firm direct!

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