Double-Sided Printing Documents
If you have access to a suitable printer in your office you can set it to print double-sided by default. This procedure is simple and can result in substantial savings in paper. The instructions below are written for Windows. Each different printer will have a unique driver. As a result the illustrations below should be viewed as examples not exact representations.
Step 1: Click on the "Start" button, click on "Settings" then click on "Printers".
This should open a new window with all the printers you use listed in it.
Step 2: Right-click on the icon for the printer that has double-sided capabilities. This will open up a menu, as shown in Figure 2 below. Click on "Printing Preferences". The menu may have different options listed (this depends on the version of Windows you have); in earlier versions of Windows click on "Document Defaults" or "Default Settings".
This should open up a new dialog with various printing options. Any changes you make in here set the default print settings for this printer.
Step 3: The dialog box will probably look different for different printers. You need to find the option for double-sided printing. This might be called "Duplex Printing", "2-sided Printing" or "Double-Sided Printing". If you are lucky the setting will be visible now; if so skip to step 4. As you choose different options the diagram of a sample page should change to show you how a printout will appear.
If you can't see the setting for double-sided printing, open up the advanced settings section by clicking on the "Advanced" button: See figure 4 below to see an example of the advanced features screen.
Choice of "Long edge" or "Short edge" binding
Step 4: There are two possible variations for double-sided printing options, depending on the printer you are setting up: either a choice between "Long edge binding" and "Short edge binding" (sometimes called "Flip on long edge" / "Flip on short edge"), or a choice of "Top-Top" and "Top-Bottom".
If you usually print things in Portrait (vertical) format select the option for "Long Edge Binding". Portrait mode is the most commonly used format for commercial databases, ie JSTOR or Academic Search Premier. Most of the documents scanned into Eres, however, are in landscape format. For double sided printing landscape documents select short edge.
This illustration shows the two settings "long-edge binding" and "short-edge binding" work in conjunction with Portrait and Landscape mode printing.
Once you've set the double-siding option, click "OK" on any open dialog boxes:
From now on documents you print to this printer will print double-sided by default. You can turn the feature off on a document-by-document basis by selecting "Printing Preferences" in the print dialog box.