All right, this is about to drive me baunkers!
In my company, I do a fair amount of printing printed material. So, I have
an HP Desk Jet 3050A J printer which I recently obtained, and am using with
10.8.2 Mountain Lion.
Here's the situation. Probably someone like Lynn etc. who's got full sight,
or at least has some vision probably will understand this concept a bit
better, but anyone... please respond if you think you may know, as the
sooner I can fix this problem, the better.
OK, let's say for an example, that I have a document which I've typed up in
Text Edit. I know, you're probably saying why not use Pages? That's
irrelavant. Just stick with me on this please. The bottom line is, I've
typed a document, and we'll just say it's 3 pages in length. It's gotta be
multiple pages for this example to be accurate. So, humor me here. So, I'm
ready to print, I hit command+P, select my printer, then hit the print
button with vo+space. Excellent, it prints. But, there is one major issue.
The printer grabs a sheet of paper from the paper load feeder or whatever
you call that thing where the paper stands up before being fed through to
print. Anyway, it sucks in the sheet, prints page 1 of the file, then drops
it on the take up tray. Then, it sucks the next page of paper from the
feeder, and prints page 2. Then drops it. Finally it does one more time,
prints page 3, and thenb drops it. OK, you're probably going yeah, isn't
that what it's supposed to do? Yeah, it is... kind a... but here's the
problem. Now, I have these 3 sheets on the tray which have just been
printed, waiting for me to grab, one stacked on top of the other. When I go
to brab them, seeing each page is being dropped on top of the prior page,
things are backwards. I hope I'm making sense. So in other words, page 1
gets fed, printed, then dropped. Page two is fed, printed, then dropped on
top of page 1. Then page 3 is fed, printed, then dropped on top of page 2.
So now when I go to grab the sheets from the tray, they're backwards. Page
3's on the top, and page 1's on the very bottom. You can imagine, for 3
pages, not that big of a deal, but if I had like 10 pages, or something like
a big expense report, or what not, this could really become enough for you
to want to throw the printer across the room! So ultimately, can I make it
print page 3 first, then 2, then 1. This way 3 comes out, then 2's dropped
on top of 3, then finally 1 spits out, and is dropped on top of 2. This way
when I grab them, all I gotta do is rotate them 180 degrees but as far as
the stacking goes, they're correct, 1 on top, 3 on bottom like they should
be when reading. I called Apple, and they absolutely insist! that there is
no way to do this, that I just gotta deal with it. I'm sorry, but I find
that incredibly hard to believe. I mean that isn't even logical that they
wouldn't give you an option. If I've confused you more than helping, I'm
sorry. It's a little bit hard to explain.
Chris.
Chris Gilland.
Founder of CLG Productions
http://www.clgproductions.com
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