--- Charles Beck <Charles.Beck at infor.com> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, and then again, maybe > I'm not. I too have > always considered it a strange paradox when I see > the words "This page > intentionally left blank." But there is no need to > use it. ========================================== Mis-printed technical documentation has real-world consequences. A printer device can misfeed two or more sheets at once, inserting completely blank double-sided sheets, or, even worse, it may print one side properly, but mis-feed two or more sheets at once on the second pass to produce the backside pages, which results in an incorrect blank backside for one or more pages.
The fact that, more and more, technical manuals are being delivered as computer files, not professionally printed and bound paper documents, increases the likelihood of printing errors when users print out all or part of a manual, and thus unambiguous identification of blank pages becomes even more important. In designing technical documentation, technical writers have an obligation to consider the impact of such things as printing and binding errors, particularly when such errors could have life-and-death consequences. How, then, do you prevent such consequences. There's only one way, and that is for users to be trained that any completely blank page or page side constitutes an error that must be corrected. Consequently, every single page must have text. The logical solution for an intentionally blank page is to place the statement "THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" in the center (not the edges, which may be incorrectly trimmed or mis-printed) of the page.