Double sided printing - second page is upside down!

[dakoda]

if your page layout is horizontal, I found i had to change it to horizontal in the print setup/ properties/ layout tab. I had the same problem.

Hope this helps!! 🙂

[vascumm]

I have a 7510 which I just purchased. I explained to the Best Buy salesman what I wanted to do. H egave me a song and a dance which sounded like BS to me. I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I have the same problem I dsinged a 3 fold brouchure on HP Market Place. I was cery satisfied. However after downloding the PDF. My secound page comes out backwards. Tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks!!!

[jrdnmllr]

I have a very large PDF file that contains 8.5x11 and 11x17. I am trying to print double sided am having issues making everything the right side up. I think the main issue is the 'Flip on short edge' and 'Flip on long edge' status is no consistent. I want to flip the 8.5x11 on the long edge while flip the 11x17 on the short edge. Essentially what I need is an option to flip on the 11" side everytime. Any Suggestions?

Also, I need to keep it in one pdf file and have the ability to print it properly all at once.

[vsnaturally]

Thanks, Tony Z. I had the same problem now in Jan 2013 and your solution worked!

[RobCompton]

I have an ageing but perfectly operating HP Colour Laserjet 8550DN and in recent weeks I have a total nightmare printing duplex.

Every time I have a document (PDF) that is landscape, it prints the second side upside-down. I have tried changing to flip on short edge from the flip on long edge (default) in the settings, but wherever it is set, it prints it wrong. 

If I print using my k*d*k inkjet, that does the duplex print properly - but I want to use the HP because of the superior output and speed (and the matter that it's ink that runs when it gets damp!).

What's really annoying is that it doesn't matter if I print with this machine (a HP Pro-Book 4150, Win7) or with our other machine at home (a custom built box running Ubuntu 12.04LTS).

To say that it's driving me insane is an understatement!

[JPBrowser]

Thank you for posting.  That's a rookie mistake, but I lost an hour figuring it out.  Watch that binding side!

[Neshotah]

When printing a Adobe PDF document in duplex mode:

1) Select "Print on both sides of paper"

2) Select "Flip on short edge"

I don't know why  "Flip on long edge" is the default as that makes the second edge upside down.

[Etude]

I have read this entire thread and I'm as frustrated as I was before reading it because of this up-side-down-page problem.  Part of the frustration is that people are giving their own circumstances for their solutions and not listening to what other people are saying.  Yes.  There are different printer models with the same problem.  And that's precisely why some of us are clueless about tabs and settings other don't have.  Which means, not everyone has the same driver interface with all the options the other person is describing.

In my situation, I have an OfficeJet Pro 8500 running under Windows 7 and I'm trying to print a landscaped 3-column 2-sided page from MS Word 2007.  When printing, I don't have a "layout" tab or "finishing" tab on any dialog box.   I do have a "Feature" tab on my printer properties.  The problem there is that when I change the Booklet Layout:" from "Off" to "Left Edge Booklet" binding on the Feature tab, the "Pages per sheet" above changes to "2".  If I change that value back to "1", then the binding goes back to "Off".  Therefore, there is no way to select left or right binding for a single page print.  There is also no option for top binding if you're printing portrait.

Somehow, printing with the correct orientation used to work.  I imagine that it stopped working either when I updated the driver or when I installed something that screwed it up.  Either way, it seems to me that HP should address that problem.  I called HP support and spoke to someone in another country (naturally).  Nevertheless, he was very helpful and was able to "remote" into my desktop to see exactly what the problem is.

Ironically, I found a work-around while speaking to tech.  If I you first print from Word to a "PDF" printer (like Nitro PDF Creator), when Nitro (reader) displays the PDF and you tell it to print to the HP OfficeJet, there's a checkbox option in the print dialog ("Auto-rotated and center pages") which will cause the text image to flip vertically on a portrait layout.  In that case, the binding is on the short edge of the page and the documents prints as I expect.  Still, that's a lot of gyration for something the printer used to do and should continue to do.

The tech promised to call me on Monday and see about either an explanation or a solution.   I'm not holding my breath.

[smiths66]

Dude you totally nailed it!! I was trying to print a pdf, 2 slides per page, open to left, and 2nd page was upside down. Then I tried what Bob has been saying and went into File, Properties, Advanced, Duplex Flip Short Edge. Then I also included your step Left, then Down....and it finally worked!!!

Thanks All!

[Sweet711]

GREAT IT WORKS..THANKS A BUNCH.:smileyhappy: