Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

Hi :)
True :))  You have to do a quick test run with 1 or 2 pages just to make sure which way you have to 
put the paper back in just in case your printer is weird.  Also make sure that no-one else prints 
to 'your' printer when you are doing the "even" pages.  I have been in quite a few offices where 
people would delight in saving-up their print-jobs until someone tried doing something like this 
purely in order to create confusion and make a fuss.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 18/1/12, Ian Whitfield <whitfield@telkomsa.net> wrote:

From: Ian Whitfield <whitfield@telkomsa.net>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012, 9:49

On 01/17/2012 06:20 PM, Sylvia Schmidt wrote:
> True two-sided printing requires a more expensive printer because the
> > paper feed is more complex. In the US the only two-sided "printers" I
> > have seen are larger office copier/printer combinations; most of the
> > desktop printers print one-sided.
> >
> > Many people do not have a printer capable of true two-sided printing
> > because most home and office printers are designed for one-sided
> > printing. They print one sheet straight through and can not reverse feed
> > to print automatically on the reverse side. The paper feed is much
> > simpler, hence less expensive and should be more reliable.

Being an "ex-Printer man" for one of the large Printer Manufactures I have to point out the 
following, (which over the years I have found very few users know about).

You do _NOT_ need a more expensive Duplex Printer to produce Double-sided printouts!! Almost all 
print routines have the option to control what prints out in any print job. So ......

First set-up your print job to print 'Odd pages only';
Take these pages, turn them over and put them back into the paper tray;
Now set-up the print job to print 'Even pages only'.

And there you have it - A Double-sided printout from a single page printer!! Easy.

Ian Whitfield
Pretoria.

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