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3. WhenDuplexprintingisenabled,furtheroptionsbecomeavailable.
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CheckOmit empty back side for Last or Single sheettoresetapagetoSimplexifit
hasanemptybackside.This changes the Duplex job into a Mixplex job.Thuschan-
gingaDuplexjobintoaMixplexjobmayreducevolumeprintingcostsasomittedback
sidesaren'tincludedinthenumberofprintedpages.Ontheotherhand,dependingonthe
printertypeitmayreducetheprintspeedaswell.
Seealso:"Theconsequencesofemptybacksidesforprintingandpagenumbering"below.
Note: UseaprintformatthatsupportsDuplex/SimplexswitchingtogetaproperMix-
plexjob.PDFisnotsuitableasithasnodevicecontrol.
Printsectionsalwaysstartonafrontpage.Toavoidemptypagesbetweensections,
considercombiningthemintoonesection,andusepagebreakstopushcontentto
thenextpage(see"Pagebreaks"onpage139).
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CheckTumbletoduplexpagesasinacalendar.
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CheckFacing pagestohavethesidemarginsswitchedalternately,sothatafterprinting
andbindingthepages,theylooklikeinamagazineorbook.See"Pages"onthefacing
pagetofindouthowtosetaleftandrightmarginonapage.
Note: MasterPages,MediaandDuplexprintingoptionscanalsobesetinaControlScript(see
"ControlScripts"onpage398and"ControlScriptAPI"onpage815).Thisisespeciallyuseful
whenyouneedidenticalsectionswithdifferentsettings.
The consequences of empty back sides for printing and page numbering
InaDuplexjob,thelastpageofasectionmaybeemptysinceeach new section starts on a new
sheet.Youmaywonderwhatthismeansforthenumberof'printclicks'andforthepagenumbering.
NotethatanemptypageisdefinedasapagethathasnocontentandnoMasterPage.Tosuppress
theMasterPageonotherwiseemptybacksides,checktheoptionOmit Master Page Back in case of
an empty back pageforlastandsinglesheets,intheSheetConfigurationdialog.(See"SheetCon-
figurationdialog"onpage489.)
Asofversion2020.2,apagethatonlyhasaDataMapperPDFbackgroundisnolongerseenasempty.
Thismayaffecttheoutputoftemplatescreatedwithpreviousversions.
Print clicks
Ifapageisempty,butstillsenttoaprinter,itmaybecountedasa'click'ontheprinter.
Toavoidthis,youcouldchecktheOmit empty back side for Last or Single sheetoptioninthe
Duplexprintingsettings.ThisresetsapagetoSimplexifithasanemptybackside.Theresultingprint
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