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Thread #126673   Message #2816734
Posted By: JohnInKansas
20-Jan-10 - 11:22 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Printing question
Subject: RE: Tech: Printing question
Joybell -

From my Project 2007, in Vista, clicking on Print opens the Windows Print Menu.

For three different printers that I looked at, the choice needed is on the "Preferences" button on that menu, next to the box where you select a different printer. For one printer it's on the "Finishing" tab, and on another it's on an "Options" tab, and I don't remember what the tab was called on the third printer.

In most Vista drivers, the choice is a "print both sides," which will print half the pages (the driver chooses which half) and then will pause for you to turn the output stack over/around and put it back into the feed tray. For the printers where I've tried "duplex printing" from Vista I get an on-screen instruction for which way to turn/flip the stack, but you may have to puzzle it out for some printers or for WinXP printer drivers.

Once the stack is back in the feed tray, if the choice was a "print both sides" one, you'll likely have to hit a "resume" button on the printer to resume printing and print the other side. In Vista, the driver takes care of the front-to-back and back-to-front switch automatically.

With WinXP drivers, you're more likely to find the print-odd and print-even choices, in some similar place, and you may have to click a "print in reverse order" - not necessarily on the same menu as for the odd/even selection - for one half of the print, and click it off for the other - or versee/vicee.

Where the choice is the odd/even pages kind of setting, printing one side is one print job, and you start from the beginning with a new print job, change the settings, and print the other side of the pages as a separate "Print" job.

John