Double sided printing - second page is upside down!

[rairden]

Wow, thread's been going 4 years...  My first try of booklet printing today, and ran into this upside-down problem.  HP Color Laser Jet CP4525 printer driver (Win7) seems to ignore the flip-up or flip-over selection when in Booklet mode.  Tried a few permutations (Potrait/Landscape/Auto-rotate/Left/Right/etc) with no luck.  Wasting paper & ink, so I printed in Booklet mode to CutePDF Writer to see on the monitor what it did with the layout.  Then realized I could just print that intermediate pdf file in regular mode where the printer will pay attention to a portrait flip-up selection.  Got the desired hard-copy with this two-step process.  Satisfied but still curious whether things like this only happen to me, I searched the web and found that it's been a common problem that may or may not be solvable by updating drivers or operating systems.  Looks like @Etude above discovered the same two-step a couple months ago using Nitro PDF Creator.  Hope this helps others avoid further frustration.

[ketan_dewan]

In cannon they have Binding location.. it serves the purpose check if you have something similar for HP

[PaulR74]

I just had the same problem today.  I have not found a reason for the issue, and have not found a real solution.  I did find a work around for this.  When I now want to do a two sided print, I go to the printer preferences, then to the Main tab.  Under Main, go to the Documet Style section and instead of choosing "Two-Sided (Book)" you choose "Two-Sided (Tablet)".  Now, for some reason, it prints all second pages in the correct orientation.

 It's like opposite day for printing!!  Good Luck.

[vlmz]

I'm wondering if you ever got a sensible answer to this problem.  It must be very frustrating to have clearly stated umpteen times that you have tried every setting to no avail, and then having to read all the lamebrain answers that seem to be written by people that obviously don't understand English. Sorry to vent, as I know people are trying to be helpful, but am totally amazed that you don't seem to have convinced them ths problem is obviously not caused by 'operator error'. I know this because I am having the same problem since upgrading to win7 64bit. I'm going to keep reading posts however, in hopes that someone out there can prove me to have egg on my face by giving a solution that doesn't involve changing some setting that even a two year old would probably try. duh.

[Bob_Headrick]

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@vlmz wrote:

I'm wondering if you ever got a sensible answer to this problem.  It must be very frustrating to have clearly stated umpteen times that you have tried every setting to no avail, and then having to read all the lamebrain answers that seem to be written by people that obviously don't understand English. Sorry to vent, as I know people are trying to be helpful, but am totally amazed that you don't seem to have convinced them ths problem is obviously not caused by 'operator error'. I know this because I am having the same problem since upgrading to win7 64bit. I'm going to keep reading posts however, in hopes that someone out there can prove me to have egg on my face by giving a solution that doesn't involve changing some setting that even a two year old would probably try. duh.

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Not clear who you are replying to, but I will try to help.  What printer model do you have?  You said you upgraded to Windows 7 x64.  Did you previously have Vista and did an upgrade to Windows 7?  If so then likely you have an outdated driver, a patch available here may apply for your printer model.

[Ranghugmyndir]

We've been dealing with this problem for over a year now. We have a LaserJet 1606dn, Windows 7 64 bit. We suspect the issue started when we needed to use FinePrint to print presentation slides in a particular way. I have spent manys hours going through forums and suggested solutions. I try to go to HP support, I punch in the serial and product no and it HP says my model is out of warrant and will offer no help.

Still stuck.  The "Flip pages up" setting has no effect. Second page in duplex printing is always upside down.

[yann_s]

I have exactly the same problem. Printing from WORD etc. does a good job but printing from within a Delphi program always prints in duplex, second page upside down. Changing default printer settings doesn't make no difference at all. 

Considered that this thread is running unsolved for years now leaves me with almost no hope to find a way out, but.....

[PTsoloman5000]

The solution for me and my HP was a setting on the properties page. Specifically a checkbox called "flip pages up". Uncheck this box! Do do so, I had to set the Two-sided printing option to manual to allow me to uncheck the "flip pages up" box  and then reset the Two-sided printing back to Automatic.

[yann_s]

Solved my problem. It was due to the setteings in the Delphi program itself

[dtoddb]

Try deleting and updating your print driver to the newest version. My set-up is a MacBook Pro (running Mavericks) and an HP Officejet 7610. I had the same issue and nothing was working from the suggestions listed here. I called HP Support, and he simply deleted the printer driver and downloaded the updated version. It was as simple as that.