Landscape Printing Bug in High Sierra
Mac Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13)
The solution that I have found to this problem is to reset the printing system:
1. Go to system preferences, printers and scanners.
2. Right click on the printer and select "Reset Printing System". This will remove all saved printers and their preferences but will not delete the drivers.
3. Add back all of the printers using the + button.
This solved my problem, but was a pain to re-add all of my printer and now re-build all of my pre-sets for each printer.
I have deleted my printers and reinstalled them.
None of these fixes are helping.
When I flip a page from portrait to landscape or landscape to portrait it does not change the orientation of the print. My print is cut off. It is not behaving as it did before the High Sierra update.
This is really cutting hindering predictability.
I'm very aggravated. It is costing me valuable time/money.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Fixed my problem where "Landscape" orientation was completely MISSING from my print dialog boxes!
This happened to me after I installed High Sierra CLEAN to a brand new SSD. It evidently corrupts the printing preferences as part of migrating the Apps, Settings, and User Accounts from the previous HS install. What's aggravating is that I reinstalled both printers CLEAN, but the prefs were still broken.
I am having the same issue on High Sierra, but even after resetting the printing system and adding all printers again the problem is still there. So far no solution helped and I can't print in landscape - doesn't matter if it's numbers, preview or anything else. It's really a big issue for me. Is there any other thing I can try?
Can't Apple issue a simple fix for this after 6 months? I don't have time to download and figure out Xcode, nor should I have to to get a native Apple application to print properly. High Sierra has been a debacle with printing issues...
You don't need to delete them in the folder, you can do it from within Pages and Numbers.
I cannot find printers and scanners in my system preferences!
You were right... it was overkill. It happened again and I used your instructions and so far so good. Thanks for the tip!
Here's the problem, Apple released another POS software update!!! Getting really tired of this Apple!
Thank you so much for this answer. It worked for me and it wasn't too much trouble to add my printer back.
Thank you!!! That worked for me while the other solutions on this thread did not.
Yep. And I have a presentation coming up and can't print exhibits in landscape. Apple rushed iOS 11 too.
Thank you!
This is also a problem in Calendars! And it doesn't have the orientation selection that Numbers and Pages have. FIX IT Please Apple!
Thanks, this is the one that worked for me. Odd that it works one day then it is all gone to pigs and whistles [old British technical term]
Hey John,
Confirming your fix works great. Deleting the preset.Orientation key and restarting solves the Numbers orientation problem. Thanks for posting as it was much easier then deleting and restoring multiple printer setups on a machine experiencing the issue. To note for all: XCode is a free editor for plist files, a bit of a download but makes editing simple.
- J
Landscape Printing Bug in High Sierra