You can do double-sided printing, in two passes, as
follows. If you use 3-hole punched paper, put it
in the printer such that the holes will appear at
the top of the page -- on the right as you pull out
the printer tray, in our Laser writer II NTX.
Print the odd-numbered sheets with
mpage ... -j 1%2 ...
Note the number of pages it reports. (Only half
this many will really be printed). When printing
finishes, if mpage reported an odd number of pages,
remove the last one from the stack, since there
will be no even-numbered sheet to match it. Then
arrange the stack of paper for printing on the
other side. (If it's punched, the holes will now
be on the left.) On our II NTX, the paper comes
out blank-side up; replace it in the tray still
blank-side up but rotated 180 degrees. For other
printers, you figure it out. Now print the even-
numbered sheets in reverse order with
mpage ... -r -j 2%2 ...
hoping no one else reaches the printer before you
do.
Cheers,
Christian
>
> Greetings,
>
> are there any printing utilities for single sided bubble/laser
> printers capable to print on both side of the paper?
>
> Scerario 1 first printig all the odd pages, then stop, beep,
> operator reloads the printed pages clean side up,
> then prints the even pages.
>
> Scenario 2 the program splits the document to be printed into
> 2 parts, the odd and the even pages parts, then the
> operator prints both parts like above.
>
> Cheers,
> George
> /ex
>
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Daudt (csd@microplex.com) Software Engineer Microplex Systems Ltd. URL: http://www.microplex.com/ "You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers." -- Steven Feiner