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Printing Double Sided Without Exploding Your Brain

September 2007 • Daniel Lucraft

Here are some things that make my brain hurt:

  • Figuring out timezones
  • Ice cream
  • Printing double sided from a single sided printer

Today I decided that I have chucked far too much wasted paper away, and wrote down the algorithm for printing double sided:

  1. If we are printing the first page go to 2, else go to 7.
  2. Print odd pages from entire range.
  3. If the last page is odd go to 4, even go to 5.
  4. Take all but the last printed sheet and place face down in printer tray, then go to 6.
  5. Take all printed sheets and place face down in printer tray.
  6. Print even pages from entire range, in reverse. STOP
  7. Print even pages from entire range.
  8. If the last page is even go to 9, odd go to 10.
  9. Take all but the last printed sheet and place face down in printer tray then go to 12.
  10. Take all printed sheets and place face down in printer tray.
  11. Print odd pages from entire range, in reverse. STOP

See… that’s not so bad.

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