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printing multi-page double sided
I'm running Word 2007 and have a document with 1st page in portrait, 2nd page
landscape, 3rd & 4th page are portrait. I want to print multi page format and double sided so that all 4 pages get printed on a single sheet of paper. I'm using the manual duplex facility. On the first pass page 1 is printed on the first sheet but page 2 is not. Then pages 3 & 4 are printed on the 2nd sheet of paper. On the second pass (after turning the paper over) page 2 is printed on the back of the sheet that has page 1 on it. Let me try to say that again! I end up with page 1 on front of 1st piece of paper, page 2 on the back of that sheet and pages 3 & 4 printed correctly but on 2nd sheet of paper. Is it not possible to print a portrait page and a landscape page on the same side of a sheet of paper in multipage mode? If it makes it any simpler, I've just tried to print pages 1 and 2 as multi-page (to eliminate the double sided aspect) and it prints on 2 sheets instead of one. Any thoughts/clues would be appreciated. Bill |
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printing multi-page double sided
You cannot mix portrait/landscape on a single sheet on 99% of duplex
printers. This is a printer (driver) limitation and not a Word limitation. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Bill_OR" wrote in message ... I'm running Word 2007 and have a document with 1st page in portrait, 2nd page landscape, 3rd & 4th page are portrait. I want to print multi page format and double sided so that all 4 pages get printed on a single sheet of paper. I'm using the manual duplex facility. On the first pass page 1 is printed on the first sheet but page 2 is not. Then pages 3 & 4 are printed on the 2nd sheet of paper. On the second pass (after turning the paper over) page 2 is printed on the back of the sheet that has page 1 on it. Let me try to say that again! I end up with page 1 on front of 1st piece of paper, page 2 on the back of that sheet and pages 3 & 4 printed correctly but on 2nd sheet of paper. Is it not possible to print a portrait page and a landscape page on the same side of a sheet of paper in multipage mode? If it makes it any simpler, I've just tried to print pages 1 and 2 as multi-page (to eliminate the double sided aspect) and it prints on 2 sheets instead of one. Any thoughts/clues would be appreciated. Bill |
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printing multi-page double sided
Thanks Terry - I had previously by Epson this afternoon that it's a Word
limitation! Looks as if I need to find another way round the problem.... Thanks for your help. Bill "Terry Farrell" wrote: You cannot mix portrait/landscape on a single sheet on 99% of duplex printers. This is a printer (driver) limitation and not a Word limitation. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Bill_OR" wrote in message ... I'm running Word 2007 and have a document with 1st page in portrait, 2nd page landscape, 3rd & 4th page are portrait. I want to print multi page format and double sided so that all 4 pages get printed on a single sheet of paper. I'm using the manual duplex facility. On the first pass page 1 is printed on the first sheet but page 2 is not. Then pages 3 & 4 are printed on the 2nd sheet of paper. On the second pass (after turning the paper over) page 2 is printed on the back of the sheet that has page 1 on it. Let me try to say that again! I end up with page 1 on front of 1st piece of paper, page 2 on the back of that sheet and pages 3 & 4 printed correctly but on 2nd sheet of paper. Is it not possible to print a portrait page and a landscape page on the same side of a sheet of paper in multipage mode? If it makes it any simpler, I've just tried to print pages 1 and 2 as multi-page (to eliminate the double sided aspect) and it prints on 2 sheets instead of one. Any thoughts/clues would be appreciated. Bill |
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printing multi-page double sided
Are you sure? Usually I think it's just a matter of making sure that Word
hasn't changed your Next Page section break to Odd Page. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... You cannot mix portrait/landscape on a single sheet on 99% of duplex printers. This is a printer (driver) limitation and not a Word limitation. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Bill_OR" wrote in message ... I'm running Word 2007 and have a document with 1st page in portrait, 2nd page landscape, 3rd & 4th page are portrait. I want to print multi page format and double sided so that all 4 pages get printed on a single sheet of paper. I'm using the manual duplex facility. On the first pass page 1 is printed on the first sheet but page 2 is not. Then pages 3 & 4 are printed on the 2nd sheet of paper. On the second pass (after turning the paper over) page 2 is printed on the back of the sheet that has page 1 on it. Let me try to say that again! I end up with page 1 on front of 1st piece of paper, page 2 on the back of that sheet and pages 3 & 4 printed correctly but on 2nd sheet of paper. Is it not possible to print a portrait page and a landscape page on the same side of a sheet of paper in multipage mode? If it makes it any simpler, I've just tried to print pages 1 and 2 as multi-page (to eliminate the double sided aspect) and it prints on 2 sheets instead of one. Any thoughts/clues would be appreciated. Bill |
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printing multi-page double sided
It's never worked for me using various laser printers. My workaround has
been to separate the landscape page, insert a Section Break, Next Odd page following the first page and print duplex. Then inserting the first page and printing the landscape page on its reverse side. A pain in the butt. This was using mostly HP LaserJets and Xerox Copy/printers. I've not tried it with any inkjet printers though. HP confirmed that it wasn't possible to mix orientation on a single sheet. Bill is trying the print n-up and I think that is even more unlikely to succeed. But my wondering mind has thought that maybe creating a PDF and then using Acrobat Reader 9.1 printing options to print n-up may resolve the problem. Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Are you sure? Usually I think it's just a matter of making sure that Word hasn't changed your Next Page section break to Odd Page. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... You cannot mix portrait/landscape on a single sheet on 99% of duplex printers. This is a printer (driver) limitation and not a Word limitation. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Bill_OR" wrote in message ... I'm running Word 2007 and have a document with 1st page in portrait, 2nd page landscape, 3rd & 4th page are portrait. I want to print multi page format and double sided so that all 4 pages get printed on a single sheet of paper. I'm using the manual duplex facility. On the first pass page 1 is printed on the first sheet but page 2 is not. Then pages 3 & 4 are printed on the 2nd sheet of paper. On the second pass (after turning the paper over) page 2 is printed on the back of the sheet that has page 1 on it. Let me try to say that again! I end up with page 1 on front of 1st piece of paper, page 2 on the back of that sheet and pages 3 & 4 printed correctly but on 2nd sheet of paper. Is it not possible to print a portrait page and a landscape page on the same side of a sheet of paper in multipage mode? If it makes it any simpler, I've just tried to print pages 1 and 2 as multi-page (to eliminate the double sided aspect) and it prints on 2 sheets instead of one. Any thoughts/clues would be appreciated. Bill |
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printing multi-page double sided
Thanks to Terry & Suzanna for their helpful suggestions. It does look as if
it's a printer limitation but Terry's great suggestion about turning it into a PDF works a treat! I use PDF995 as a free PDF generator and it has the feature to set the number of pages per sheet - that does the job and allows me to print the 4 pages on the same sheet of paper, 2 pages per side. Brilliant lateral thinking Terry! regards, Bill "Terry Farrell" wrote: It's never worked for me using various laser printers. My workaround has been to separate the landscape page, insert a Section Break, Next Odd page following the first page and print duplex. Then inserting the first page and printing the landscape page on its reverse side. A pain in the butt. This was using mostly HP LaserJets and Xerox Copy/printers. I've not tried it with any inkjet printers though. HP confirmed that it wasn't possible to mix orientation on a single sheet. Bill is trying the print n-up and I think that is even more unlikely to succeed. But my wondering mind has thought that maybe creating a PDF and then using Acrobat Reader 9.1 printing options to print n-up may resolve the problem. Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Are you sure? Usually I think it's just a matter of making sure that Word hasn't changed your Next Page section break to Odd Page. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... You cannot mix portrait/landscape on a single sheet on 99% of duplex printers. This is a printer (driver) limitation and not a Word limitation. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Bill_OR" wrote in message ... I'm running Word 2007 and have a document with 1st page in portrait, 2nd page landscape, 3rd & 4th page are portrait. I want to print multi page format and double sided so that all 4 pages get printed on a single sheet of paper. I'm using the manual duplex facility. On the first pass page 1 is printed on the first sheet but page 2 is not. Then pages 3 & 4 are printed on the 2nd sheet of paper. On the second pass (after turning the paper over) page 2 is printed on the back of the sheet that has page 1 on it. Let me try to say that again! I end up with page 1 on front of 1st piece of paper, page 2 on the back of that sheet and pages 3 & 4 printed correctly but on 2nd sheet of paper. Is it not possible to print a portrait page and a landscape page on the same side of a sheet of paper in multipage mode? If it makes it any simpler, I've just tried to print pages 1 and 2 as multi-page (to eliminate the double sided aspect) and it prints on 2 sheets instead of one. Any thoughts/clues would be appreciated. Bill |
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