double sided printing

[Vicki McCormack]

When printing double sided from some programs, it doesn't start a new page with a new report.
Any idea how to set this option?

[Bill Hassell]

Printers know nothing about reports and page boundaries. A properly written program will have a configuration file for each printer that specifies the page length. No sane program will count lines per page (from the days of green bar paper), but instead will write each page followed by a formfeed (assuming an ASCII printer) to jump to the next page. Really ancient programs would write out every line and hope that the printer's page length would properly skip to the next page.

Modern page printers, whether laser or inkjet, have a completely customizable lines per page (for simple ASCII files) and logical page lengths for mixed fonts and graphics. Setting these options requires a lot more information including the type of printer and the format of the reports (ie, formfeeds, line counting, lines per page assumptions, etc). It is quite possible that the report will print differently on different printers.