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Solve : How to print a PDF two-sided on simple Laserjet?

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Yes, I have done this before. But I have forgot. It always confuses me.
At one Time I had a two-sided printer. Well, I wore it out. So I got two on those cheap things at Walmart. Always one sided.

Here is a link, but I don;t get it.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=tightropetb&p=how+to+print+two0sided+with+a+simple+Laserjet.#id=2&vid=81837ce6b1c3b575147e5f5ab2524f45&action=click

I am using Focxit PDF. It lets me print even pages only or odd pages only. And it lets me reverse order. I t will always wrong. The document starts with a cover page for the document. But the next page is 1m not 2. Can you understand what goes on? I am wasting a lot of paper. It is only 10 sheets, but I have already ruined 30 or more sheets.
Please help me. Years ago I know how to do this, Old age has got me. Once you print the odd/even pages you need to arrange the stack properly based on how your printer feeds itself.

Basically you want it so that the first page the printer pulls is going to be the reversed page 1, then the reversed page 3, then the reversed page 5, to print pages 2, 4, and 6 respectively of the document (or vice versa, 2, 4, or 6 reversed for printing 1,3,5). Exactly how you do it might vary based on how the printer feeds, but once you have a stack of paper you should be able to "step through" to determine what the printer will do as long as you know how it feeds paper. I'd suggest printing page 1, then figuring out how you need to orient the page when printing page 2 to get it on the reverse side. Then use that for a guide for how you need to arrange the stack. For example, my printer will take the top page of the stack but it prints on the "bottom" of the page as visible in the tray and it prints it upside down with respect to me looking at the printer. if I was to take a page after printing and put it in the same orientation it was in the stack, the printed page would be face down and upside down, so if I want to print on the reverse I need to put the paper in face up and upside down, so I would have the stack of 1,3,5,etc placed upwards but with the top of the page towards me, then printing the even pages will result in the desired double-sided output.Dictation starts.

Thank you very much for responding to my problem.

As I mentioned, I used to print documents on both sides to say paper and to reduce the amount of things I have to start my shelving. But in reality, a person ACTUALLY pays less money buying more paper than what you need. It is just the principle of the THING, the paper is made to be used on both sides and it seems to be a shame not to do it.

Anyway, I used to know how to do that right. I must have forgotten or else the new printer has me very confused. Here is a method I have now developed to help me figure out what's going on. I take a small stack of paper and using a soft lead pencil I put marks in the upper corner of each page with what I expect to be the page number and the position. So one would expect that the sheets would be odd-numbered on the front side. So that's what I've done and I have created a blank document in a word processor and saved it as a PDF FILE and print it out and then I will compare my notation with what is printed by the document editor.

If you have a cover page, and if the cover page is not numbered, you'll cause a big problem in one of the PDF tools I have . It TURNS out that if you have a cover page that does not have an assigned number two it, the reader tool that I'm using will assign that first page as pages one and two when you try to print it out. But the first page is supposed to be really just a cover page and it should be blank on the backside and it should not have a page number. Does this make any sense to you. It is caused all sorts of confusion to me and a waste of a lot of paper. Once I have the test results from printing out a five blank pages, then I can see the problem of what happens when one of the pages have to be just a cover page and not a numbered page.

I think I will solve this problem by trying the use of different PDF programs, maybe even using the PDF program that comes inside my Internet browser.
So I am going to examine different FREE PDF programs that might allow me to make the right decisions when trying to print a document on a one-sided printer, but use both sides of one sheet of paper. It is going to take me a while to get this figured out and don't be surprised if it takes me a week to answer. Thanks for give me a shove in the right direction.



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