safoster71 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Greetings, i am creating a small booklet in Publisher. My problem? When i print the pages double sided, the back side prints "upside down" - no matter what i try to do (short of rotating the back 180 degrees. Any idea as to why its doing this? Thanks for any help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Examples, screenshots, even the file will help more, also what printer you have and on which Operating System. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 1 hour ago, safoster71 said: short of rotating the back 180 degrees Why not just rotate the back 180 degrees! How you do double sided printing will depend on the capabilities of your printer! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 1 hour ago, safoster71 said: When i print the pages double sided, the back side prints "upside down" - no matter what i try to do (short of rotating the back 180 degrees. Does your printer driver have/offer finer grade settings for double side printing? - What printer (manufactor + model) do you use? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 12 hours ago, safoster71 said: Greetings, i am creating a small booklet in Publisher. My problem? When i print the pages double sided, the back side prints "upside down" - no matter what i try to do (short of rotating the back 180 degrees. Any idea as to why its doing this? Thanks for any help! In the double sided printing option there will be a long side / short side setting. Choose the one that is not selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feebee Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 I've been struggling with this problem too with my Epson XP 900 printer, didn't make any difference what the setting was and it happened in Word documents as well as Affinity. I contacted Epson and apparently it was due to using a "generic" driver (although it was Epson), I was given a link to a new driver which once installed prints documents correctly. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnaliseThis Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Version 1 does this exceptionally well, however, I have been printing booklets on a finishing printer (folds and staples), this morning with version 2 and no matter what I select in the Publisher print options, flip short side or long side, the second and subsequent even pages all print upside down. I have tried printing the same document several times and it fails to print the even pages correctly. So, I went back to version 1 and using a PDF copy of the same document, loaded into Publisher (cant load version 2 .afpub documents, into v1) I tried it again with the same settings as previous and it worked correctly. I have been using the same printer driver and printer settings for ages without a problem. Today however, using the same printer settings and v2, I could not get even pages to print out correctly. I am using Windows 11 and a Konica Minolta i300C printer with a finishing module. I also tried a simple double sided print out of a two page document and again it failed to print the even page the right way round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnaliseThis Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 On 6/19/2022 at 5:27 AM, PaulEC said: Why not just rotate the back 180 degrees! How you do double sided printing will depend on the capabilities of your printer! Not a very practical solution, especially if, like me, you are printing 150 page technical documents. This is an issue that needs addressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Try exporting to PDF which will give you more print options. PaulEC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 4 hours ago, AnaliseThis said: Not a very practical solution, especially if, like me, you are printing 150 page technical documents. This is an issue that needs addressing. But quite practical for a "small booklet" which was the subject of the original post! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnaliseThis Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 12 minutes ago, PaulEC said: But quite practical for a "small booklet" which was the subject of the original post! Yes, you are right. However, its a program fault in v2, therefore Serif need to address it ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_06 Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 I am experiencing duplex printing issues using HP's universal print driver (both PCL and PS) which is the only driver they provide now. Affinity does not set duplex for long edge at all and when short edge is selected it sets the driver to long edge resulting in 180° rotation. This occurs both in v1 and v2 for me using this driver. There are other anomalous printing behaviors by Affinity when using the HP universal driver as well which I am generally able to work around. I do not have these issues using the same driver in InDesign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_06 Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 4 hours ago, Chris_06 said: I do not have these issues using the same driver in InDesign. And considering the nearly non-existent concern by Serif for wide ranging bugs, we are seriously considering moving back to InDesign. You get what you pay for as they say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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