If your printer is facing east/west, you need to turn it 90 degrees to face north/south - or vice-versa. If that doesn't work, and you are in the northern hemisphere, drive south until you cross the equator, at which point it will usually begin to print on the other side of the paper.

Sorry - couldn't help myself.

Portrait mode is the default. I am looking into SBasic commands that allow setting printer defaults like orientation and margins. I'll see if I can slip some of these under the feature freeze for 1.0.5. Its difficult, in that Sesame is cross platform, and printers are handled very differently between Unix and Windows. In fact, printers is one of the few areas where Windows is better than Unix (IMHO).

Set up two Windows printers for the same physical printer and port.  One configured to default to Portrait mode, and one to default to Landscape mode.

Now you can use the following utility to set the default printer: Quote:
It accepts either the printer share name or the port

It could be sent with @Shell command before doing the printing and followed by another @Shell command to reset back to the normal default printer.

Run DefPrint in DOS window for more information
defprint /p will show the available printers with information like the following: Quote:


Now the Default Printer can be changed with something like this:
Quote:


This freeware utility is available at  http://www.netadmintools.com/defprint.zip

PS, re Mark's comments on heading South.  If you stop AT the Equator, the printer starts spinning in all directions and turns into a Shredder.  Lesson:  Do not stop exactly on the Equator, be sure to be above or below it.  Have not had a chance to determine the affected longitude range but it is probably more than one pixel in distance.

Nice tool.  Well kept secret. 

I see it listed in your list of funcitons for 1.0.4.

I cannot find it in the Programming Guide (pre 1.0.4), but I cannot find it in the 104 Supplement either!  Perhaps I am missing that page?  ???

I haven't gone through the whole list, but are there others that may also not be referenced in the supplement?  ? ?
Aha!  Answer is YES!.  I also see RestoreDefaultPrinter in your list for 1.0.4. 

If your printer is facing east/west, you need to turn it 90 degrees to face north/south - or vice-versa.  If that doesn't work, and you are in the northern hemisphere, drive south until you cross the equator, at which point it will usually begin to print on the other side of the paper. 

OK - i'm in Australia, so...................... I'll just go & have a beer - that'l help me see things more clearly & obviously i'll have to reverse this instructions above

Thanks for your help on this one