Originally Posted by Russ Roth

Op only specifies it's oriented correctly which often means setting the lettering so if they were visible to the rider they would be readable while sitting in the saddle. However, I have come across spindles that were printed upside-down and only figured it out when measuring the space from the crankarms to the stays. Although that typically means the crank sits too far inboard, it doesn't mean you shouldn't rule out all possibilities. And regardless of what the paper says, I still don't remember them using that long a spindle, I may be remembering wrong, but that still seems wide for a DA spindle.