Re: Help wanted - Duplex printing

Mats Wichmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.general
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On 8/27/26 09:16, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
> Thanks Pierre and MRAB.
> I tried that; here is a hex dump of my concatenated file:
> 
> 
> 16:09:12 R:\DSPR>dump ShortDocument3.txt
> File ShortDocument3.txt Size 60 (hex 3C) bytes
> 00000000:  54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 74 68 65 20 66 69 72 73  |This is the 
> firs|
> 00000010:  74 20 64 6F 63 75 6D 65 6E 74 2E 0D 0A 0C 54 68  |t 
> document...♀Th|
> 00000020:  69 73 20 69 73 20 74 68 65 20 73 65 63 6F 6E 64  |is is the 
> second|
> 00000030:  20 64 6F 63 75 6D 65 6E 74 2E 0D 0A              | 
> document...    |
> 
> 
> but no dice; it printed the whole thing on one sheet, with the form feed 
> printed as a
> thick-headed up-arrow character at the start of the second line.
> It's looking as if it will only switch sides when the first side is full.
> Best wishes
> Rob Cliffe
> 
> 
> On 27/08/2026 15:42, MRAB wrote:
>> On 27/08/2026 13:08, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
>>> I have a Windows 11 laptop and an Epson WF-4820 printer.
>>> Is there any way I can programmatically print two files, one on each 
>>> side of the same sheet of paper?
I've heard of people doing this by combining the contents of the files 
into a pdf.  You should be able to do that with one of the Python pdf 
toolkits and have sufficient control over what will be spat out, but I 
couldn't begin to tell you how...  now what happens if either file is 
longer than a page is an interesting question, but maybe not one you 
have to worry about?
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