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

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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