On 2026-03-22, CGS <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-03-22, Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 02:50:17PM -0000, CGS wrote: >> >>> Is this driverless printing or is there a ppd file? >> >> Driverless >> >>> You said '-o >>> orientation-requested=3' is ignored? The thing is to verify whether or >>> not that orientation request is being passed on to CUPS or not in order >>> to narrow things down. >> >> How can that be verified? It is logged somewhere? >> > > lpr -o orientation-requested=3 file.txt > lpstat -W all > # grab job ID, then: > sudo strings /var/spool/cups/cN | grep -i orient > > I think that should work. >
Anyway, we now know that orientation-requested=3 works. So make it the permanent default. The flag is documented in the RFC.
