HP printer flips to landscape and prints on half of the page

[morsagmon]

My HP Officejet J6413 is flipping the page to landscape and prints my one-page document on half of the page.

In the application's preview (both Adobe Reader and Word 2013) my portrait page looks perfect. However, on the HP Preview (and when actually printing), what you see is:
1. The page is layed out in Landscape mode
2. The text is decreased in size to fit HALF of the page, as if it is a small book where the next page needs to be placed right next to it (but it is blank).

I've gone over all setup and properties parameters, all looks fine, no special tricks for multiple pages, double printing and such...

How can I solve this and print regular Portrait pages?

Thanks!

[Dragon-Fur]

@morsagmon

I can offer the following:

Perhaps Printing Preferences and Print Preview are in conflict.

You can check / adjust the Printing Preferences from within the Print Preview window.

Also, you can select Auto or Landscape or Portrait from Print Preview.

Manage Print Output with Print Preview

• Print Preview – Accessing the Printing Preferences
• Duplex Page Printing Challenges (Adobe Reader)  >> Ignore the "duplex selection" bits

If you have not already done so, you might consider updating your Adobe Reader:

• Adobe Reader DC

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[morsagmon]

Thank you, Dragon-Fur.

I did find the settings in Adobe Reader now, for printing 2 pages per sheet, and booklet, and disabled. This fixed the Adobe printing.

As for Word 2013, in "Printer Properties", "Features" tab, there's also the "Pages per sheet" control, and I try to set it to "1 pages per sheet" (instead of 2 pages per sheet currently selected). However, as I click "OK" and the setting is supposedly saved, it is not. If I re-open the "Printer Properties" it is reverted back to "2 pages per sheet". Why? How can I change this permanently?

Thanks!

[Dragon-Fur]

@morsagmon

You can try setting the defaults the way you like in Print Preview > Page Setup.

Once set, click to save the (new) settings as Default.

Reference:

Manage Print Output with Print Preview

See Section titled:

Print Settings that do not “stick”

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[morsagmon]

Thanks, Dragon-Fur.

Only the "Page Setup" has an option to save as default.

The setting I need to change is in "Printer PRoperties" - no option to save as default. It just keeps changing back forcefully to 2 pages per sheet...

I'm using Word 2013.