Unwanted Upside-down Characters Printing

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I have a strange problem that only occurs with one printer when my application prints: each individual character prints upside-down.

Everything is printed at the proper location on the paper, but each character is upside-down. If I print to other printers, including a PDF Writer installed, the output is perfectly fine, but on this one printer it isn't.

The application is written in C++ with MFC and uses a CPrintDialog to select the printer. Once selected and the device context is obtained, the map mode is set to MM_TWIPS.

As I say, the output is fine for all other printers I have tried this with. Is there some value that I should be explicitly setting that just happens to be already set by default for many printers, but not for this one?

Please help me.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 8-Jun-11 4:34am

daxack

Updated 8-Jun-11 5:01am

Ramalinga Koushik

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BillW33 8-Jun-11 11:03am

Are other programs able to print correctly to the problem printer?

daxack 9-Jun-11 8:02am

Yes, other programs can print to the problem printer. In fact, using my program, if I print to the PDF writer, then open the resulting PDF with Acrobat Reader, it can print to the printer in question without any problems.

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2011-06-09T03:32:00

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maybe the printer driver has a problem with it. Try MM_TEXT or some other options...

Posted 9-Jun-11 3:32am

KarstenK

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daxack 11-Jun-11 9:18am

I try to avoid blaming other code, but it appears you may be correct.

The computers in our network that this was happening on were running either Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 Server, and were all using the printer driver that came with the printer.

One new computer was added yesterday that had Windows 7 on it and instead of the printer-supplied driver, it was setup with the driver that came with Windows 7. It prints perfectly normal.

KarstenK 14-Jun-11 3:20am

sorry that you dont like my way of solving problems. An easy was is to live with it.