📎 AI Summary:
A user is seeking a way to print multiple individual pages onto fewer sheets by utilizing duplex printing, without manually reloading paper, and is asking how to control the print spooler to hold the job until all pages are ready. A respondent suggests merging all individual documents into a single file to facilitate printing the pages on two sheets with duplex, avoiding the need to manage the spooler directly. Overall, the thread discusses the challenge of combining multiple files for efficient duplex printing without manual intervention.

pstein

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I have a laser printer which is able to print in Duplex mode (front and flip/back side) which works fine.

Now assume I have 4 individual document pages (e.g. 4 *.pdf files or 4 Word *.doc files or 4 *.jpeg files)
which I want to print.

BUT: these 4 pages should NOT be printed on a physical paper page each.

Instead front and flip/back side should be printed. So for 4 logical pages the result should be 2 physical papers.

Now when I load the first file into whatever (editor) software and start printing then the print process starts immediately. So back side cannot be printed (I want to avoid to re-insert paper in printer tray).

How else can I tell the printer "Hey wait with printing until all papers are in your spooler and I tell you go"?

Even when I could manage somehow to hold automatic immediate printer spooling and resume it later all paper are printed individually.
So I need some additional option to tell the printer to append/concatenate all individual papers in spooler.

How can I do this?

Peter