Practical guides for two-sided printing

Start with the symptom you see on paper. These guides explain how to distinguish a consistent offset from scaling, rotation and feed variation, then make one controlled proof.

• Why double-sided printing does not line up

  Diagnose a consistent offset, skew, scaling and changing paper-feed error before correcting a duplex PDF.

• Long-edge vs short-edge duplex printing

  Understand how page orientation and flip direction change the sign of a back-page correction.

• Shift even PDF pages by millimetres

  Move back pages for a duplex print job without resizing pages or rasterizing vector artwork.

• Print a PDF at 100% without changing its size

  Check paper size, scaling and borderless expansion before measuring a duplex printing offset.