Yeah as it should, but there should also be a collate check box or what you could do is when page 1 is printed grab it and face it down, then page 2, then 3. then grab it and turn it round so that you can staple it.
or what I do is when page 1 is done turn it front wise and fold down the 2 top left and right corners and face it down. then same with 2 and 3. that way I can staple this successfully. I have done with with sheet music I've had to arrange and scores I have had to hand in to the prof. I learned this trick years and years and years ago during the dot matrix printers. Remember those? Take care all. On Jan 31, 2013, at 6:06 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > suppos ed 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. 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