Printing Double-sided print outs - Duplex Printing Guide

Although ink is much more expensive than paper, printing double sided can save you money, and help preserve the environment. If your home or office printer supports duplexing, this is easy to achieve automatically. Printers capable of duplex printing are usually more expensive, but printing double sided manually is time consuming, so the extra cost may be justified if you print often enough. If you need to print double sided manually, you will need to use the following process:

1. First you need to determine which side of the paper your machine prints on. Mark a piece of paper and print a test page if you are not sure. If you do not use your printer very often, it may be wise to take note of the orientation of the printed document so you will remember.

2. Once you know which way the printer will orient the pages, select print from the file (or other) menu and manually enter all the odd page numbers, for example: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. Click OK and allow all of the pages to finish printing.

3. Take all of the printed pages and flip them around so that the printer will print on the other side of the paper this time.

4. Repeat step number 2, this time entering the even numbers.

You may be able to select “odd numbered,” or “even numbered” pages only from the menu, on most Mac Operating Systems this is under “copies and pages”>>”paper handling.”