I am a sign designer and we have recently purchased a Xerox Phaser 6180 colour laser printer. All of our proofs for sales presentations are laid out on 8.5 X 11 in a landscape format. For the life of me I can't get the post script print driver to understand that it needs to rotate the graphics so that it prints the length of the page. As a workaround I've been setting the page to a portrait configuration and then rotating all the graphics 90 degrees so that it will print properly.

 If anybody has any experience with the Phaser 6180 and CorelDraw X3 maybe they have some insight into what I'm missing.

 Thanks,

 Dan
 

 Hey Dan,

I don't have your printer, but irregardless, most printers have a setting to allow for portrait or landscape orientation.  In the X3 print dialogue window, right next to where you've selected your printer in the drop down list, is the button marked PROPERTIES.  Click that and it should open to allow you choose landscape orientation.  As long as your document is landscape, and this setting is selected, it should work.

The only other option would be to set the default settings for your printer in the windows printer folder to landscape, as that is your primary print function.

Hope some of this info helps,

*cheers*

Todd
 

 The "Portrait/Landscape" option works with the PCL driver that comes with the Phaser 6180 but it doesn't work when I try and use the Postscript driver. The option is there but it makes no difference which option you pick.

The "Portrait/Landscape" option in the Phaser 6180 Postscript driver works the way it's supposed to in Xara Xtreme but it doesn't work in either CorelDraw X3 or PhotoPaint X3. There is some sort of an incompatibility but so far I haven't been able to nail down what it is.

 Dan
 

 Hey Dan,

Sorry, I didn't notice you'd said PS driver.  I know with our PS driver for the Heidelberg, it makes a difference under the printer properties if you have LONG EDGE or SHORT EDGE first selected.  When we change paper size and orientation, we always key in the short edge dimension first and then the long edge, even for landscape orientation.  Then when LANDSCAPE is chosen under properties, it correctly rotates the page.  Maybe this is happening on your PS driver?

*cheers*

Todd
 

Also you might need to not let the printer change the orientation. I believe this is a setting in the print dialog. Might need to change manually in the print driver.

I had an issue like this a while ago and manually changing the setting with the print worked 

We had the Xerox 6180 / CorelDraw Postscript Landscape printing problem: landscape prints were not properly rotated when printed.  This was only a problem with Corel but affected an older version 9 as well as X3.  This forum suggests this does not seem to have been fixed in Service Packs for X3 (but we have not tried them).

But another thread in this forum suggests using a PostScript Printer Description file, and that worked for us (on both versions of CorelDraw).

I found the one installed by the 6180 install program at C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\xeroxphaser_6180nbb1b\XRX6180N.PPD

The fact that the "Use PPD" box was ticked, and that you're using RX6180N2.PPD (or whatever you called it) will be remembered next time you use Corel.

Paul,

You nailed it! That's the fix. I wonder why someone at Xerox didn't twig onto that. I wasted a bunch of time with their helpdesk and didn't come close to solving the problem. Over the course of week or two this should save me a ton of time not having to rotate graphics for printing purposes then rotating them back for viewing purposes on the monitor.

Thanks a bunch for the solution Paul.

Dan