how do i print on both sides?

BooJewels

Neil_Jones wrote: »

You need two pages to start with in the first place, otherwise you're not duplexing anything. Sending it to PDF as "two pages" will just generate two separate pages as you would expect if it was coming out an actual printer.

It didn't even do that when I tried creating 2 copies (pdf to pdf), I just got a single page duplicate of the original single page document.

you should be able to make a double sided document from the two separate sheets and then you can keep that as a master and duplicate it as and when you need it. If you don't have such a fancy printer your local library probably does.

I think that's the problem, she has a single page document and wants it printing the same on both sides of the paper - 2 copies, one on each side of the paper. Short of turning the paper over and re-printing again (we don't know if she wants a single print, or hundreds of the same thing) from my own limited tests, only seems to work if you actually duplicate the original content onto a second page and create a 2 page document with the same content on pages 1 and 2 and duplex print that.

Neil_Jones

BooJewels wrote: »

It didn't even do that when I tried creating 2 copies (pdf to pdf), I just got a single page duplicate of the original single page document.

That's to be expected because it's still at the end of the day one source file/page. As I say, it doesn't matter what, where or how you do it, it will still come out on separate sheets. The art of duplexing is you have to have two to start off with, otherwise you're not duplexing, you're just duplicating.

I think that's the problem, she has a single page document and wants it printing the same on both sides of the paper - 2 copies, one on each side of the paper. Short of turning the paper over and re-printing again (we don't know if she wants a single print, or hundreds of the same thing) from my own limited tests, only seems to work if you actually duplicate the original content onto a second page and create a 2 page document with the same content on pages 1 and 2 and duplex print that.

That is the only solution. The original document/page/source or whatever needs to be expanded to two pages, and then OP can duplex it to their heart's consent.

Since the OP has a scanned document which is in its original format of a PDF and a JPEG (see post #24), they're probably not going to be able to easily duplicate it on screen to achieve the same effect, particularly if they want it to look nice when it comes out the printer.

No the easiest way is two separate prints and combine them back to back via scanning to make a new two-sided document which a fancy all-in-one machine with email facility (again the local library will probably have a machine that does this) can make a new master in PDF format that one can keep as a new copy. That will then be two sided which enables the duplexing.