PDF Duplex Printing Failure
January 19, 2006 8:52 AM   Subscribe

PDF Duplex Printing Failure

I'm at my ropes end troubleshooting PDF printing. Acrobat Pro 7 absolutely fails duplex printing. I understand the preferences dialog and the "Flip On" parameters, no problems there. Acrobat simply refuses to play. The only help I found on their website was a document about an old Illustrator version failing duplex printing - it suggested you distill a PDF from a PS file. I attempted that creation method as well, no dice.

I downloaded FoxIt Reader and, low and behold, it does print duplex succesfully. However, it takes ages to print multiple copies of these documents. I haven't exactly compared the cache sent from Quark with that of FoxIt, but it seems as if the printer is reprocessing the data for each new copy.

Printing from Quark I can key in 20 copies and the printer loads the document and hums away untill they are entirely spit out. This PDF method takes a long pause between each document, creating an absolutely unacceptable amount of wasted time between each copy.

The PDF files are generally well under 1MB, printer is an HP 8100DN. I loath Quark, and this is the last step before we kick it to the curb. Help!
posted by prostyle to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)
 
Response by poster: I'm a fool! Acrobat > Print > Advanced > Print as Image
Collates multiple copies as intended. Ugh.
posted by prostyle at 9:06 AM on January 19, 2006


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