IBM 3000 manual Checking for a Front-Facing

Checking for a Front-Facing Page

Do this task when your system uses the eject-to-front-facing-page facility or it is

con®gured on the printer. Also, do this when you need to tell the printer that the

next page to be printed is a front-facing or a back-facing page.

For example, the following situations might require you to perform this task:

v Loading a new form name in the printer

v Reloading forms after you clear a forms jam

v Restarting printing operations in the middle of a job.

The eject-to-front-facing-page facility places a blank page between jobs that have

an odd number of pages. This ensures that a job that requires a certain folding

pattern are printed correctly. A good example is a print job that is to be folded like

a book, where the cover and all odd-numbered pages are to be printed on

front-facing pages.

The printers do not count pages. However, after you inform the printer what the orientation (front facing or back facing) of the ®rst page of a job will be, the printer simply switches a pointer back and forth in its memory to remember the page orientation. Therefore the printer is able to determine, at the end of a job, that the job contained an even or odd number of pages.

Next Page is Front Facing is the power-on default condition. If you do not use the Front Face procedure, all print jobs are started or restarted using that default, which may not be aligned with the fold direction. The determination of whether to insert a blank page is still made even if the fold direction is incorrect.

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