My printer is confused. When I check “front to back”, it prints back to front. When I check “back to front”, it prints front to back. How do I fix this?
Win 2000 Pro, HP Deskjet 855c.
How about reverse the way that you think of it? I am not trying to be flip. That just sounds like an obvious and workable solution and maybe their terms aren’t the way that you think of it.
My guess is that, somewhere, there is a second setting for that that is also reversed, and is re-reversing your selection, if that makes sense. Perhaps in the settings on the printer itself, as opposed to the driver?
That is my guess, but I don’t know where that setting would be.
WAG: look for a setting called “Collate”, or something similar.
I have a very similar printer (hp 970) and have had several Hp ink jets over the years. I think the thing that is confusing you here is that in these printers, when the paper comes out of the printer into the output tray, it is face up. Although this makes no difference for single page documents, it is “backwards” for multi-page documents.
Think about this way: If you print a multi-page document front-to-back (page 1 prints first), page 1 is face up, but at the bottom of the stack. You have to restack when you’re finished printing to get them the right way up.
But if you print back-to-front (last page first), when you’re done the pages are stacked the right way, page one is face up on the top.
So because your printer spits the paper out “upside-down” with respect to the printing order, printing front-to-back gives you pages in reverse order, whereas printing back-to-front gives you pages in the correct order.
My HP7760 give me the exact same problem.
I’ve just figured that HP people are idiots.