Text printing in reverse

[agabldawg]

When printing from Word 2003, the text is reversed. This occurred just after
downloading Service Pack 3 so I assume that has something to do with it. Any
suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I assume you mean the text is printing from right to left. Are the actual
characters also reversed? If so, make sure you don't have a setting enabled
in your printer Properties to print a mirror image (the setting may be
called "T-shirt transfer" or "Flip horizontal"). If the characters are
normal but just in reversed order, check the assigned language and
uninstall/disable any RTL languages (Hebrew, Arabic) that may have become
installed or enabled.

 

[agabldawg]

Thanks for your reply Suzanne. The actual characters are reversed, and, as I
said, this began occuring after installing Service Pack 3 (Windows XP). Also,
I can find no option to "flip horizontal" or "T-shirt transfer" in printer
properties.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Does this happen in Notepad and WordPad as well as Word?

 

[agabldawg]

I'm not sure...I restored my system to a point before I the time I installed
Service Pack 3 and that corrected the problem. Before restoring, I printed a
test page from printer properties and it was reversed. It has something to do
with SP3. Guess I'll live with out it. Thanks for your help.