After our phone conversation earlier this afternoon, I had a bit of a look around with various options to see if this can be accomplished.
As a printer, The majority of Dell printers (Certainly the laser printers, I have no personal experience of the Inkjet models as I work on the Laser printer support team), will simply do as they are told. They will not take paper from the MPF unless asked to do so by the application.
However, with a little creative configuration, I believe that it may be possible to do what you talk about in your above post.
Please note - I have not yet had time to experiment with this, so this may not actually work! This is not a Dell feature.
Microsoft Word 2007* has an option for Manual Duplex, where it will print out one side of a document, then wait for you to insert that sheet again to print the other side. Pretty much what you are doing above.
However, when Word does this, I believe that it puts a qualifier on the data sent to the printer that this is a second side (Effectively, it classifies the second pages as a different paper type, much like it would automatically specify that documents printed through the envelopes and labels wizard are envelopes or labels.
The printer itself has a setting that corresponds to this.
So, I suggest the following
1 - On the printer, press the menu button and look for the tray settings menu, then MPF
Then set MPF mode to Panel Specified, and press Set.
Press cancel, then look for Paper Type, and set it to Plain S2, and press set
2 - In Word, Click File, the print. Underneath the properties button, you should see a tick box markes Manual Duplex. Tick this, then click OK to start your print.
Hopefully, what should happen is that the printerwill print all of side one, then wait for you to put the paper in the MPF and continue printing.
I must stress, I have not actually had the opportunity to try this yet, and probably wont get the chance to do so until monday.
*I believe the option is available in all Office programs from 2003 onwards, possibly earlier.
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February 29th, 2008 15:00
Hi Andy
After our phone conversation earlier this afternoon, I had a bit of a look around with various options to see if this can be accomplished.
As a printer, The majority of Dell printers (Certainly the laser printers, I have no personal experience of the Inkjet models as I work on the Laser printer support team), will simply do as they are told. They will not take paper from the MPF unless asked to do so by the application.
However, with a little creative configuration, I believe that it may be possible to do what you talk about in your above post.
Please note - I have not yet had time to experiment with this, so this may not actually work! This is not a Dell feature.
Microsoft Word 2007* has an option for Manual Duplex, where it will print out one side of a document, then wait for you to insert that sheet again to print the other side. Pretty much what you are doing above.
However, when Word does this, I believe that it puts a qualifier on the data sent to the printer that this is a second side (Effectively, it classifies the second pages as a different paper type, much like it would automatically specify that documents printed through the envelopes and labels wizard are envelopes or labels.
The printer itself has a setting that corresponds to this.
So, I suggest the following
1 - On the printer, press the menu button and look for the tray settings menu, then MPF
2 - In Word, Click File, the print. Underneath the properties button, you should see a tick box markes Manual Duplex. Tick this, then click OK to start your print.
Hopefully, what should happen is that the printerwill print all of side one, then wait for you to put the paper in the MPF and continue printing.
I must stress, I have not actually had the opportunity to try this yet, and probably wont get the chance to do so until monday.
*I believe the option is available in all Office programs from 2003 onwards, possibly earlier.