This is an issue that I have been struggling with for at least a month now. I can get my documents to print double-sided, however, when they do, the back side of the document is always upside down. It is extremely frustrating being a college student and having to turn in papers and assignments like this. I am trying to save on paper and it would be awesome if I could figure this out. Please Help!
Desperate college student
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
If you are using the duplexing function in your printer driver, stop using it, because it seems to have been set up wrong.
OSX lets you print alternately the even and odd pages of your document and in forwards or backward order.
All you need to do is feed a few sheets into your printer's paper tray, marking the top leading edge of the sheets and observe which side, and in which direction the printer prints your pages. ie usually on the opposite side to the mark and with the mark up on the top edge.
The process of getting duplexed and collated printout in the right order is then simply one of printing either the odd or even test pages first, then taking the printed copies and feeding them back into the printer paper tray facing the opposite way, in most cases facing up, so that the printer then prints to the other side.
Make notes of the results. Doing a set of 6 should sort how it works, then follow your notes each time to get the result you want, which would be double sided printing, collated from front to back on the second pass.
It is not difficult, simply a physical behavior of your printer.
Peter
On the two-side printers that I use, there is an option in the Print dialog under Layout to turn two-sided printing on, and it presents two options, for Long Edge Binding and Short Edge Binding. For most normal documents, you want Long Edge Binding, but if your backs have been upside down you should try whichever one you haven't been using.
This is a function of the printer driver, so the location or wording may be different for your specific printer, but it should be there somewhere. If not, Peter's instructions will work with any printer.
Printing Double-Sided in Pages
