Windows 10: My printer is printing all documents on half a page and in landscape rather than portrait

HiI have this issue happening on our laptop and now the new surface pro 8 as well. The printer will print on half the page in landscape but will print everything just smaller and on the left hand side. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, gone through all the settings. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! thank you, Rachel

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Printer only prints on half of the paper

When I print, the print preview appears that the document will use the entire length and width of the page. Although, the printer will the entire document, the printout only appears on half of the available space of the page, so the print is really

small and it is landscape mode not portrait mode. I need my letter documents to appear on a full size sheet of paper, not just on half of the paper. How can I fix this issue?

 

Printing a paper to my Brother printer using windows prints portrait on a landscape paper

Windows cant seem to get printing right on my laptop (Linux works perfectly fine BTW so not hardware and not printer)

Whenever I try to print a document in portrait orientation using windows, it prints out sideways as if the printer is printing to a portrait fed system, however my printer pulls paper in from the long edge (landscape orientation) however it is windows doing
the mess-up as when it prints it is scaled to fit inside the paper with the long edge of the document file on the 8.5 in side (short edge) so it only uses half the paper in print

Please help.

See images for examples:

When Printed as Portrait:





When Printed as Landscape:





When Screen Snipped to account for rotation:

 

How change Print Orientation default to Portrait and how invert colors

cereberus,

Thanks for the quick reply.

#1 I don't think you are right about the orientation.
If the printer controls it, why does S & S have an option of Landscape or Portrait on its Print page?

As proof, if I don't change S&S default it prints landscape.
If I then exit S&S and print on a simple test Notepad it prints Portrait which is my printer default.
The only way S&S prints landscape is if you leave the landscape default selected and the only way it prints portrait is if you change the default to Portrait on the S&S print page. I can't imagine Microsoft intended that there was no way to make Portrait the default?

Why don't you try it yourself and let me know.

#2 Inverting colors is also not contingent on printer driver.
My old Win7 has an optional PrintKey Pro software that has an option box for Invert Colors that overrides the printer driver which does not include that function and if I inadvertently leave the Invert function box checked my regular printer prints normal as long as I am not using PrintKey.