Collating Pages when printing

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Collating Pages when printing

I have just bought an Epson PX710W printer and attached it to my iMac. All works well except when printing documents with multiple pages I want them to print out in reverse order, so I select 'collate'. However whether collate is selected or not the pages just print out the same, i.e, in the order I do not want. Instead of printing pages 10 - 1 for instance, so that the result is a collated document I always get pages 1 - 10. The collate tick box appears to have no effect.

Epson tell me this is a function within the OS that is overriding the setting within the printer dialog box.

Where can I look to resolve this so I can get printed pages collated?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 22, 2009 5:29 AM

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Jay Bullock

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Dec 22, 2009 5:53 AM in response to Andrew Turner

"Collate" is not the same as "print in reverse order." To collate means that if you print multiple copies of multiple-page documents, the copies will be grouped such that each full document has all the pages in order.

For example, if you print a five-page document ten times, you might get ten page ones, ten page twos, and so on in piles. Selecting "Collate" means that you'll get ten sets of pages 1-5.

So what you need to do is look for an option that says "Print in Reverse Order" or something similar.

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