Re: [gentoo-user] Scanning double sided documents and printing them the same.

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:09:29 -0600, Dale wrote:

> I have a flatbed scanner.  It's a old HP 4570.  I been using Skanlite to
> scan pictures etc and it does a great job.  On occasion tho I have a
> double sided document.  I know how to scan them, scan one side, flip
> over and scan the back.  That's easy enough.  How do I print them the
> same way tho?  Sometimes I use it like a copying machine basically. 
> Scan in, then print.  I'm not quite sure how to print the double sided
> stuff in one go tho. 
>
> If someone does the same as me, can you share how you print them two
> sided?  My printer is duplex so I just need to import both sides and
> tell it to print.  I'm just not sure what software does that and makes
> it easy.

I use gscan2pdf, although it sans to many more file formats. Scan to  2
page PDF and your printer can print in duplex.

Gscan2pdf has lots of nice features, I used to use it with an ADF and it
would scan all the sheets, then I'd turn the stack over and feed it back
in and it would scan the other sides and then put all the pages in the
correct order.

I have a duplex scanner now, but that was a real time saver.


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Neil Bothwick

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