Landscape Printing Bug in High Sierra

When using numbers, or preview, or any other software, when my page is setup in landscape mode, I go to print, but the page in the printer dialogue box is in portrait mode and cuts off the sheet. Any ideas on how to fix this?User uploaded file

Mac Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Oct 10, 2017 2:09 PM

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Posted on Oct 16, 2017 11:07 AM

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.

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Dec 5, 2017 1:27 PM in response to grok12

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.

Jan 20, 2018 1:53 PM in response to Apple Advocate

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.

Feb 22, 2018 9:32 AM in response to Quarkomatic

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

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