Printing on both sides of a page

[GeneFromTexas]

I love the ability to print on both sides of a sheet of paper.

I know that if I have a document that has multiple pages in it that I can print each 2 pages on one sheet.

What I have is multiple files, each defining one page, but I would like to select, say, 2 files and say, "Print on both sides" and it would print the first file on side 1 and the 2nd file on side 2.

[dansdaduk · Accepted solution]

>> ... What I have is multiple files, each defining one page, but I would like to select, say, 2 files and say, "Print on both sides" and it would print the first file on side 1 and the 2nd file on side 2 ...

With each file that you select to print, the printer driver generates a print job which is sent to the printer.

The printer interprets the content of the print job and prints the required page image(s), then (at end of job), any incomplete pages are printed and flushed from memory.

So the next job will always start on a new sheet of paper, regardless of the simplex / duplex setting.

The only ways that you could achieve what you want are:

• Find someone to write you a bespoke printer driver that would take the content of two nominated source documents as input in order to produce a single output print job; even if you could find someone to do this, it would probably cost a great deal more than the printer (or many such printers).

• Merge the two source (Word, Excel, whatever) input documents into one new source document, then print this.

[GeneFromTexas]

Combining 2 files into one is probably the best option.  Where I could really use this is when I'm printing my tax forms.  I use the PDF files from the IRS website as the source, but of course, they are individual files.  I guess I could see if Adobe can combine 2 PDF files into one, then print that.