On 5/10/2018 5:11 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 5/10/2018 4:33 AM, mike wrote:
Brother MFC-L2700DW

Can print multiple pages per page
and double sided.
Windows 7 and 10

I want to print multiple documents from multiple
applications in ONE job
so I can use the printer driver ability to print
multiple pages per page on both sides of the paper.

Looks like PDFFactory might do what I want, but it's
not freeware.

Alternatives?

In my mind it is not clear exactly what you want to do. IF you want to
print to paper it will depend on your printer and the software you are
using to do the printing.

IF the printer allows it, printing on the front and back is a change in
the printer settings.

IF the software allows the printing of the odd number pages and then the
even number pages, then you can first print the odd pages, turn the
printed pages over and print the even number pages on the back. This
takes a little thought to orient the odd number pages into the printer
so the even number pages are oriented properly on the back.

IF you are trying to create a PDF document, then you need a PDF printer
like SourceForge's PDFCreator. This allows you to print from multiple
sources, then combine them and save all of the pages as one document.
NOTE: The current version is 3.2.0 but I use version 1.7.3 as for my
purposes it works better.

Current version
http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download

Version 1.7.3

"http://azure.download.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/1.7.3/PDFCreator-1_7_3_setup.exe3.3k"

"http://olive.download.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/1.7.3/PDFCreator-1_7_3_setup.exe423"

"http://blue.download.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/1.7.3/PDFCreator-1_7_3_setup.exe227"

"http://white.download.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/1.7.3/PDFCreator-1_7_3_setup.exe549"


I installed PDFArchitect because it said it could merge.
And merge it does, so I'm a happy camper on that front.

I'm disappointed that it can't do anything else I've tried without
sending me off to buy the function. And it's huge and bloated with
stuff that won't work...but it does merge files like I need.

Still haven't been able to get the win10 Brother printer driver to print
duplex from win10.
The duplex checkboxes are there, but greyed out...except when I use a
different
program, the print dialog reverts to the inbuilt windows screen instead
of the installed Brother printer driver. Looks like a windows 10 issue.

So, at this point, I can merge pdf files on win10 and print the result
duplex with win7. It's always something.

I got what I needed, thanks, mike