When printing two-sided spread sheets from Numbers, the sides are not the same UP orientation, so you can't turn the page left-right, you have to flip it top-bottom. Is there a way to print both sides with the same UP orientation?
It all depends on your printer. Look in the print dialog & see if there is an option to change or set this. Look at any help files that came with the printer or on the manufacturer's web site.
The only other option I can think of is to print to a PDF & then open the PDF in Preview & manually rotate every other page. Certainly not something you'd want to have to do.
Which printer is causing the problem?
I've had a couple of Brother color laser printers & had no problems with duplex printing. I no longer have them, so I can't check.
I just got an Epson 800 delivered today so I don't know how it does it. I won't be setting that printer up for a week or so as we are moving next week.
The manual for your Epson printer shows options for Long edge binding and Short edge binding under Two-sided printing; you didn't mention the specific model for the Brother printer, but every Brother print driver that I have seen has those options for two sided printing under Layout. Usually Long edge binding is the default, and switching to Short edge binding will reverse the orientation of the second side.
I always thought of long-side or short-side binding relating to portrait or landscape page layout. I never thought of it relating to second side up or down. My Brother lasers always printed the second side correctly. I'll have to remember that when I get my Epson set up.
They may have set the default that way but why does it only affect Numbers documents? As I said before, I didn't have this issue when I was using Brother laser printers that did duplexing. I still say it should be reported to Epson.
I was hoping that wasn't the answer. Two printers, a Brother and an Epson. When I scan duplex, there is an option to flip the 2nd page, but not for printing. But yeah, I guess i'll have to resort to saving PDFs. Seems like several things that were simple are now complex or obscure.
Epson XP 850 and Brother MFC ink jet are both the same: 2nd page reversed, no option to flip. Brother used for printing CAD plans, tabloid size. Never need 2 sides for that, but 2 sided useful for spread sheets. But this really isn't a new thing; I just wasn't doing 2-sided printing before I upgraded 2.3 to 3.2. So guess I won't grumble about it getting more difficult. Pages gets it right; maybe I'll drop the spreads into Pages and get what I want. That works, but still have to edit the original in Numbers; no better than doing a pdf
The great majority of documents are probably bound on the left edge of the front page, so documents with a portrait layout would get long edge binding, while landscape layouts would get short edge binding. I would imagine there could be a few exceptions, though. For example, a folding calendar, with a landscape picture on the top page and the calendar on the bottom is bound on the top, long edge of the calendar page.
Thanks for that info, Jeff. Like Peggy, doesn't seem logical that that would change the orientation of the 2nd page, but, the spread sheets I've wanted 2-sided have been landscape orientation, and that is binding on the short side. So I just created a 2 page spread, portrait, and it prints correctly; it automatically selects long-edge, But the puzzlement is: the computer knows it is either portrait or landscape. Seems that it should automatically select short edge binding when the document is landscape. Seems like a bug to me, but knowing that, easily worked around.
Thanks agin.
I think they just made the default setting for the most common situation: a portrait oriented page, bound on the side. That happens to also be correct for what might be the least common case: a landscape page bound on the top or bottom. If your situation happens to be one of the other two possibilities: A portrait page bound at the top, or a landscape page bound at the edge, then you have to change the setting. If you bind at the top or bottom, you do want the other side to be upside down, but you want right and left to match on both sides, so either setting might be correct for either orientation. They just set a default that works in the most common case.
Since it's right when printing from Pages, maybe it would be right when printing from Preview.
It would seem to be a bug, but it's one Epson should fix. You should send feedback to Epson, probably through a link on their web site.
I've never known what those terms meant! Never bothered to find out. Thank you. Both printers have that option, and both print correctly when selected.
Daru
Brothers, too, which makes wonder if, since it seems to be universal, it might not be better addressed by Apple.
2 sided printing: upside down
