To find out whether your printer supports duplex printing, you can check your printer manual or consult your printer manufacturer, or you can do the following:.
Under Settings , click Print One Sided. If Print on Both Sides is available, your printer is set up for duplex printing. If you are printing to a combination copy machine and printer, and the copy machine supports two-sided copying, it probably supports automatic duplex printing.
If you have more than one printer installed, it is possible that one printer supports duplex printing and another printer does not. If your printer doesn't support automatic duplex printing, you have two other options. You can use manual duplex printing, or you can print the odd and even pages separately.
If your printer does not support automatic duplex printing, you can print all of the pages that appear on one side of the paper and then, after you are prompted, turn the stack over and feed the pages into the printer again. When you print, Word will prompt you to turn over the stack to feed the pages into the printer again. Under Settings , click Print All Pages.
Near the bottom of the gallery, click Only Print Odd Pages. After the odd pages are printed, flip the stack of pages over, and then under Settings , click Print All Pages.
At the bottom of the gallery, click Only Print Even Pages. Note: To make sure that pages print in the correct order when printing odd or even pages, click File , Options , Advanced , and under Print , click either Print on front of the sheet for duplex printing or Print on back of the sheet for duplex printing. Important: Office is no longer supported. Upgrade to Microsoft to work anywhere from any device and continue to receive support.
Upgrade now. You can use the following methods to determine whether a specific printer supports duplex printing:. Thankfully there is also a solution to this. When you want to print double sided just for the document you are working on, then when you click on the print button there is usually an option to allow you to change the printer properties for this print only. Clicking on this will bring up the same menu as seen earlier which allows you to tell the printer to print double sided for this document only as can be seen below:.
Depending on the printer, this will generally mean that duplex printing has been enabled for printing the document you are working on. Most manufacturers have a model with duplex printing enabled.
One easy way to tell which printers have duplex printing capabilities, is by looking at the model number for the printer such as, Ricoh SPC D N Colour Laser Printer. While the model numbers may seem arbitrary at first inspection, there is information contained within. The D within all model numbers means that the printer is capable of duplex printing.
Utilising auto duplex printing can save a reasonable amount of money over time depending on the quantity of printing you are doing. Below is a table that shows how much you could save by switching to automatic duplex printing within your organisation:.
Cost savings using auto duplex printing click for larger image. There can also be a huge environmental impact from switching to duplex printing, with one study of Arizona State University saving trees since switching to duplex printing. Hopefully this has clarified some of the questions you may have had about duplex printing, whether this was related to auto duplex printing, manual duplex printing or double-sided printing.
If you have successfully utilised duplex printing in your organisation we would love to hear from you about how that has worked for you, so please leave a comment below. I have been working in the printing industry with TonerGiant for over 12 years and am the resident technical printer expert.
I'm also a big fan of all gadgets and technology. I want to print on 5. I have to put the paper back in after the first side prints. They tend to run the paper through twice but auto would prevent you from needing to re-feed the paper back in yourself.
What sizes will a Duplex printer handle, would they print to A5 for instance. I am an author so it is useful to run off a book before going to publication. Will a Duplex achieve this or are page numbers limited? If the printer can print in A5 and has auto duplex capability, I would imagine this is possible.
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Learn how your comment data is processed. What is Duplex Printing? How does duplex printing work? How do I duplex print? Our office laser printers also suck the paper back in and do something similar.
The linked video is correct, for that kind of printer. In the simpler printers, however, there isn't another page working through the machine while the first one is getting printed. It just does one sheet at a time. The trick is that it does a second direction reversal inside the duplexer where you can't see it. When it backs the paper up the first time, there is a gate-like thing that diverts it to a temporary holding area.
Then it reverses the second time and feeds the sheet back into the printer more or less the same way it normally does. For ease of understanding, imagine it like this: in a classic HP deskjet where the paper supply is right below the paper output. Remove the shelf that separates the two.
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