printing problems

[Nikki]

All the settings in my PowerPoint are set to print the
slides in landscape orientation. But, when it prints out,
it prints in portrait orientation. The Print Preview
looks normal and so do the slides in Slide View. Any
ideas on what the problem might be?

 

[Ashish Chetal]

Hi,
This sounds like the printer driver is one not signed by Microsoft and
hence the orientations are not being followed in printing.
Unsigned drivers use their default orientation which is portait by default.

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[Bill Dilworth]

Couple of basics to check ...

By any chance is this a networked printer (one connected to a different
computer or the network directly)? Or is it one that plugs directly into
your computer?

1) Within PowerPoint, verify you are printing to Landscape from the File |
Page Set up ... | Slides options.
2) Check that your printer is not changing the orientation back again. The
actual settings vary from machine to machine. With my old Epson printer if
I set PPT to print landscape and my printer to print landscape the page is
printed in Portrait. Both turned the page 90 degrees ending up with the
wrong setting. This resolved on one of the driver updates.
3) Update your printer driver from the printer manufacturers website
4) Update DirectX (just because it is always a good idea)

PowerPoint is supposed to determine the printers orientation and take that
into account to keep the orientation it sets.

Nikki, please post back if none of these fix the problem.


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[Steve Rindsberg]

All the settings in my PowerPoint are set to print the
slides in landscape orientation. But, when it prints out,
it prints in portrait orientation. The Print Preview
looks normal and so do the slides in Slide View. Any
ideas on what the problem might be?

Try setting the printer driver to Landscape using Start, Settings, Printers,
Printer preferences

Do this first, then start PPT and try printing.


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