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Using Both Sides of the Paper: Duplex and Tumble Modes

With dvips, you can print in duplex or tumble mode by using the -h option:

dvips -h duplex filename.dvi
or
dvips -h tumble filename.dvi

If you always want your document to be printed two-sided, you can include one of the following commands in your document preamble:

\special{header=duplex}
\special{header=tumble}

The difference between duplex and tumble concerns whether pages are printed with opposite sides sharing a ``top'' of the page (duplex), so that turning the page side-to-side leaves both sides correctly oriented (as in a book), or whether these pages are flipped vertically (tumbled), so that turning the page up leaves both sides correctly oriented (as in a legal notepad). The orientation will obviosuly be somewhat different if the printout is landscape mode instead of portrait mode. For most uses, the duplex mode is the more fitting.



Alex Rolfe
1999-10-29