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On 10/12/12 22:48, bad apple wrote:
Yes thanks, that makes sense. Meanwhile, don't know how it happened, but this morning I printed a one page doc and the printer fed the sheet back in and tried to print page 2. There was no page 2 so the paper just fed through quickly and I finished with just the one page as expected.There is no way a basic inkjet printer such as your new HP will have the actual hardware for duplex printing, by which I mean the ability to suck the stack of printed paper back in and print straight to the other side - that's strictly a higher end feature, and usually only found on high quality inkjets for graphics shops and big laserjets. What HP mean when they say it supports 2-sided printing is that it will indeed do duplex (you may need to check a print dialogue setting before you send the job to the printer) but your hands will be the physical method of conveying the half-printed stack of sheets back to the feed tray. The printer will be smart enough (probably!) to prompt you via it's little built-in screen or by a dialogue box on your monitor that when it's finished printing the first side, to take out the stack, flip it along one or more of it's axis, and feed the stack back in to finish up. This is more useful than it sounds, as otherwise you'll probably end up printing one side upside down, or get the page order backwards, etc. So it's sort of 'half manual' duplex if you see what I mean. You still have to feed the paper, but it should take care of the rest itself. Obviously, it would be wise to test this on a small (4-5 pages of very minimal text to save ink) job first to make sure it works properly before sending a complete copy of the Lindisfarne Gospels or something as a duplex job. Hope that makes sense. Cheers
I will try printing a 2 page doc and see what happens. Thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq