Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

On Tuesday 09 September 2014 16:03:06 Brian wrote:
> On Tue 09 Sep 2014 at 09:23:02 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> > On 09/09/2014 02:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > >On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:46:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> > >>The printing is along the length of the paper, as opposed to
> > >>perpendicular.
> > >
> > >Known as landscape and portrait respectively.
> > >
> > >>How do I change it?
> > >
> > >Depends on the application you are printing from, but it's usually under
> > >something called 'page setup' or similar.
> > 
> > Chris -
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> [PPD snipped]
> 
> > If possible, take a look at the ppd file and see if a change can be
> > made there.
> > 
> > Here is the file.
> 
> The orientation of a print on paper is not (and cannot be) set from a
> PPD file. Did you try Chris Bannister's suggestion? What is the
> application?
> 
> You could try
> 
>    lp -o landscape filename
> 
> Or for portrait
> 
>    lp -o orientation-requested=3 filename

In PPD there is:
*LandscapeOrientation:  Plus90

Could that be it?
Thierry