AccuRIP tech support helped. Kinda.
I can check the dimensions of the art, manually rotate it so it's shorter vertically, and manually adjust the "postscript custom page size definition" under "properties" --> "advanced" for each and every print, but I'm guessing there's a much less effort way to get the same results?
Nope. That's the simplest way, the helpdesk at AccuRIP insists. Anyone beg to differ? Have a shortcut or workaround? I'd like to not be rotating all my tall art by hand. I'd like to not be telling the computer where to cut with every print.
Make my page 17" wide in Corel.
If the art is taller than it is wide, the only way to save film is to rotate the art itself.
The printer will need to be told where to cut the film after printing through the "PostScript custom page size definition" box on every print (effectively adjusting the driver settings for each print).
"Long edge first" was really not making any sense until it was explained "use that unless you have art needing to print that is longer in 1 dimension than 17".
the auto rotate, auto cut after a sep stuff they advertise apparently doesn't function with Corel X4