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:
- If we are printing the first page go to 2, else go to 7.
- Print odd pages from entire range.
- If the last page is odd go to 4, even go to 5.
- Take all but the last printed sheet and place face down in printer tray, then go to 6.
- Take all printed sheets and place face down in printer tray.
- Print even pages from entire range, in reverse. STOP
- Print even pages from entire range.
- If the last page is even go to 9, odd go to 10.
- Take all but the last printed sheet and place face down in printer tray then go to 12.
- Take all printed sheets and place face down in printer tray.
- Print odd pages from entire range, in reverse. STOP
See… that’s not so bad.