If you need to print a text document on both sides of the sheet, the procedure depends on the specifics of the printer used in this operation. Some of them allow for duplex printing without any user intervention, others stop the process at a certain stage and offer to re-place the printed sheets in the tray, and still others do not. Below is the sequence of actions for duplex printing using the example of a word processor Microsoft Word.
Instructions
Step 1
Find out if your printer supports automatic printing on both sides of the paper. To do this, open the word processor menu by clicking on the round Office button in the upper right corner of the window, go to the "Print" section and select "Print". In this way, the dialog for sending the document to the printer opens. It can also be started by pressing the ctrl + p keyboard shortcut. In the dialog box, click the Properties button. The content of the window that opens after this is entirely determined by the device driver, and therefore will differ for different printer models. Look for settings that include duplex printing. They can also be formulated in a different way - for example, "printing on both sides of the sheet" or "printing with reverse". If there is such a setting, activate it and start outputting the document to the printer, and if not, then go to the second step.
Step 2
Close the printer driver window and in the send to print dialog box, check the checkbox next to the text "duplex printing". After that, click the "OK" button and the document will be placed in the print queue of the printer specified in the "Name" field. When all the pages on one side of the sheets have been printed, Word will stop the process and display a message asking you to turn the stack over and put it back in the printer's input tray.
Step 3
There is also an alternative, albeit less convenient, method for duplex printing. It consists in sending only the odd-numbered pages to the printer first, then turn over the printed sheets, put them back in the input tray and send only the even-numbered pages to print. However, with this method of printing, it may be necessary not only to turn the stack of pages, but also to change the order of their sequence, which is not very convenient with a sufficiently large number of sheets. The option to choose whether to print only odd or even pages is found in the same send to print dialog box - in the "Enable" drop-down list in the lower left corner of the window.
