Hi people, We would like to duplex print pages 1 and 2 to paper source 1 and pages 3 and further to paper source 2. When we use Word the plain way only page 1 is printed to paper source 1 and pages 2 and further are printed to paper source 2. This results in the paper sheet having a blank back! This is not desired behaviour. It looks like Word does not have built in ways to do this, am I correct? Or do we overlook something? Regards, Carl

Hi, As far as I know, there is no simple way to do what you want. Word's control of printers is limited, and even in Visual basic the print command does not include tray selection. The print first page to different tray command is part of the page setup. You could try the following: (I can't test this as I don't have a multi-tray printer) 1. At the end of the first page insert a Break - select Section Break Next Page. 2. Place cursor somewhere on page 1. Select Page setup, and set 'First page' and 'Other pages' settings to the two trays and select 'This section' in the 'Apply to:' drop down. 3. Place cursor somewhere on page 2. Select Page setup, and set 'First page' and 'Other pages' settings to the two trays and select 'This section' in the 'Apply to:' drop down. 4. File - Print - select duplex and see what happens ! If this doesn't work it might be possible to write a Macro. Also: are you using a Duplex printer or are you using the Manual Duplex function. Regards

Thanks for the suggested solution. This was already one of the scenarios we were thinking of but this is not easily feasible. Think of the user writing a large document, adding both text to section 1 and section 2. Then some event-logic behind the printer function always needs to adjust the sections - deleting the break and entering it again at the precisely correct spot! In a lot cases that isn't even possible. Think of breaking paragraphs the correct way, etc. Another scenario we were thinking of, is automatically printing pages 1 and 2 with printer settings x and printing pages 3 and beyond with printer settings y (using an event handler in VBA). This is feasible, but gets more complicated if the document consists of more (page breaking) sections. We need to print every (page breaking) section seperately. Good luck with that! And by the way, we use a duplex printer, and we configure the setting on our workstation. The printer prints duplex only when the client application tells it to do so.

Hi, I wasn't clear why we needed some event logic. As you have a Duplex printer, place one Section-Break - Next Page at the end of the second page. I doesn't matter how many more section breaks occur after page two. In VB, to print, VB sets Section 1 to print using Tray 2 VB then sets all other sections (and it doesn't need to know how many sections there are in advance), to print using Tray one. Then it prints section one, with Duplex = TRUE Then as a second print job it prints all remaining pages, also with Duplex=TRUE. The VB code is attached to a new toolbar button specifically for this type of printing. I didn't understand why you say: We need to print every (page breaking) section separately Is this because the first page of every Page Break section has to be printed from a different tray? Regards