Duplex Printing Upside Down

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November 14, 2008
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I am having a problem printing a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" booklet that consists of one sheet of paper. After one side of the paper is printed the printer draws the paper back in, flips it, then prints the other side of the paper upside down. I have tried various settings in "Print Booklet", "Print", and the settings for the printer itself.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Kath-H

Inspiring

Same here. We upgraded our Konica-Minolta and suddenly got upside down printing on landscape jobs. It turns out that in the latest version, you use 'left binding' for both portrait and landscape if you want both sides the same way up, or 'top binding' if you want the two sides opposite ways up.

For instance, you have a calendar, landscape, bound along the top. You look at January, turn the page, away from you - February is right way up but so is some text on the back of January.

Once I got used to the idea, it made more sense.

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harmonygirl

Participant

Thank you! Wasted 2 hours.

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_A1_Leasing_Author

Participant

Yes! Thank you Diane!

My Canon printer has long side left or right and short side top or bottom staple choices on the duplex settings. I switched from a long side to a short side setting and it worked. I am going to have to study the meaning behind that terminology because it does not make intuitive sense to me.

Thanks again,

Mark

bethdevivo

Participating Frequently

Mark, any chance you were printing a greeting card or something else that needed to be folded? I had the same trouble with a greeting card I was trying to print. I kept selecting long-edge binding because that's what I'd normally do with a two page document. However, with a greeting card, I needed the short-edge binding. It took me way longer than it should have to figure out my mistake

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_Diane_King_

Known Participant

What printer are you using? We have a Xerox 252 with a Fiery server and we were having problems getting consistent duplexing. We eventually discovered the setting that we were missing, but it wouldn't do me any good to tell you if you don't have that type of printer. Landscape printing usually requires a top/bottom duplex setting, which can also be called "flip on short edge" or "head to foot." This is set within the printer settings--usually under layout or printer features.

I have noticed with ID CS3 that even landscape pages are sometimes considered portrait when it comes to duplex orientation, so if your pages are still printing upside down, try changing the settings to the opposite (i.e. top/top, flip long edge, or head to head). This is only true in ID, all other apps should orient landscape with the other settings. This was exactly the problem we were having with our Xerox and ID. We could print duplex using the standard landscape settings from Acrobat but from ID, the results were unpredictable. We finally found in the printer settings where we could force the page to be oriented either portrait or landscape and that fixes the problem.