On Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:09:29 AM CET Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a flatbed scanner. It's a old HP 4570. I been using Skanlite to > scan pictures etc and it does a great job. On occasion tho I have a > double sided document. I know how to scan them, scan one side, flip > over and scan the back. That's easy enough. How do I print them the > same way tho? Sometimes I use it like a copying machine basically. > Scan in, then print. I'm not quite sure how to print the double sided > stuff in one go tho. > > If someone does the same as me, can you share how you print them two > sided? My printer is duplex so I just need to import both sides and > tell it to print. I'm just not sure what software does that and makes > it easy. > > Thoughts?? > > Dale > > :_) :-)
My old printer/scanner can scan directly to PDF using the sheetfeeder. For double-sided, I always ended up with 1 PDF with odd-pages and 1 with even. There used to be tools available (python-old) that could shuffle these together and merge them into a single PDF, which would allow for easy reading/ printing. Currently, I would have to manually convert these to single-pages and then merge them, again, manually. This is the downside of single-sided sheetfeeders. If you do the scans manually (eg. no sheetfeeders) you should be able to get them all in the correct order in a PDF. The PDF can then be printed double- sided and you get them the same way. (Just scan them "dummy-mode" and add white-pages when the back of the sheet is white) -- Joost
