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Name: Saint Jude
Date: March 10, 2004 at 02:49:38 Pacific
Subject: Print to file / buffer
OS: Windows NT
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Hello - It's my first time.
Sorry if I have missed out some details. All the OS guides are in Swedish, so I'm having trouble finding my way.

I'm doing a number of those Cisco online courses. I'd like to print out quite a lot of the material so I can read it on the train (2 hrs a day).

The problem is that each page is mixed - HTML Text on one side, with a multi-layered Flash presentation on the other.

I am currently right-clicking the text, the printing, then right-clicking each layer in the presentation, and printing each. This part is OK.

However, this results in a load of pages that are only printed on 1 side, and that sometimes have very little content. I'd like to print on both sides of the paper[cost,saving trees,space].

I was hoping that I could choose some option to send all these prints to a single file, which I can then print out a little later, using both sides of the paper - and also saving space on each side.

I have been trying "Print to file", but..

- This produces individual files, rather than appending, and thus building up, a single one.

- I don't know how to print it out !

Printer at college:
HP LaserJet 4050 series PCL 6

Many thanks


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Response Number 1
Name: wanderer
Date: March 10, 2004 at 11:11:57 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Printing on both sides is not a property of the text source but of the printer driver. If you go to the properties of the 4050 do you have a duplex option? This should show in the general tab of the printer properties [double sided =yes/no].

Most web sites have a "printer friendly" button for their documents which takes care of some of what you describe.

Otherwise.... I am out of suggestions.


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Response Number 2
Name: Saint Jude
Date: March 11, 2004 at 09:32:09 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Thanks for that, but I don't think it's what I need.

Cisco doesn't provide a printer friendly option (probably for obvious reasons).

I can indeed print in duplex - it is in fact the college policy, repeated on ubiquitous notices.**

However, because the the nature of the material (Flash/HTML) I am printing piece by piece, rarely taking up more than one side. What I'm after is a buffer that could wait at least until I have 2 sides' worth of material to print.

** My college, Mälardalens Högskola, is the first college in the World to receive environmental certification according to ISO 14001 !


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