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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