How to print very large documents?

Mac woes - how do I print my documents like I want them?

• I have an Epson inkjet printer and a new MacBook Pro. In Windows, I can print manual duplex by simply checking a box (it prints even pages, then I flip the paper manually, then it prints the odd pages). But the driver doesn't support this in Mac OS X. HOWEVER, the reason why the simple solution (do it all manually! First print even, flip, print odd) won't work is that I want TWO pages per side AND duplex printing, i.e. four pages being printed on each piece of paper. How can I achieve this?I was thinking I could do a PDF print of two pages per side and then do the manual duplex, but whenever I've tried the output file is huge and the quality very poor. Also, this is a significant amount of extra work so I'd prefer a more straightforward solution. PS: I've read http://superuser.com/questions/123255/manual-duplex-printing-for-mac-and-or-linux but I won't work because my issue is printing two pages per side.

• Answer:

  Are these incredibly long docs? the hackiest solution is just to type in the page numbers you want it to print the first time (e.g. for a 20 page doc, you would need to print 1,2,5,6,9,10,13,14,17,18) and select the 2 pages per side option, and then flip and print the other pages (3,4,7,8,11,12,15,16,19,20). If it's a lot of pages there are ways to get google docs/excel to spit out the pages that you need for you, but I typed that up in about 8 seconds so it's not a ton of extra time to do manually unless your files are huge.