rotated landscape printing on some but not all printers

Hello all,
I have a Canon Pixma IP3000 which first worked flawlessly.
Operating system is Windows XP Pro with all available updates.
As I printed a Word document which starts in portrait and has some
pages set to landscape, the printer printed the landscape pages
turned by 180°, i.e. top edge at right, not at left as it should. The
same document had printed OK some weeks before.
Same with a test document created from scratch for testing switching
from portrait to landscape.
Same document prints correctly on HPLJ4000 (with pcl as well as PS
driver), on another PS printer, and on the Adobe Acrobat distiller.
But also on a fax printer driver (not MS Fax but a commercial fax
software having its own printer driver) the landscape pages come out
with top edge at right.
The MS Office Document Image Writer correctly creates landscape pages as
landscape oriented bitmaps which are displayes in landscape orientation.
-- I had a slight suspicion that the effect started with installing this
pseudo printer driver, so I had a look into it. I also uninstalled this
pseudo printer driver, but this didn't change the effect.
I also uninstalled the Canon printer driver and reinstalled, using the
latest driver from the Canon download area, also this didn't solve the
problem.

The effect occurs with printing from all Windows applications - I tested
it with Notepad, PFE (another Ascii editor), Wordpad, all Office apps,
and Paintshop Pro.
Only when printing from Adobe Acrobat, the Canon IP3000 prints the
landscape pages correctly. However Acrobat may be unaffected by the
existing problem because I think Acrobat renders each page by itself and
sends it to the printer as a portrait mode graphics stream.

Because some weeks ago I upgraded from Word 2000 to Word 2003, I first
suspected that Word 2003 was the reason, so I uninstalled Word 2003 and
re-installed Word 2000 - same effect. I then found a document with
correcly printed landscape page which was printed after upgrade to Word
2003, so Word 2003 could not be the reason.

Does anyone know if there is a switch in Windows or in the printer
driver, perhaps in the windows registry, which controls this behavior,
or whether Office 2003 or the MS Office Document Image Writer modifies a
system dll used for printing?


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Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Juelich GmbH, MUT
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