Can someone from the iOS developer team answer this question.
Why doesn't iOS support Manual double-sided printing?
The iOS has the option double-sided printing only if the printer does that automatically and for the all other printers the option is DISABLED.
Why? How can Apple say that he cares about the environment when is making it HARDER to do a manual double-sided print than it is to do a single-sided print. And yes I said HARDER because I hate the fact that Apple was lazy about this feature so I have made a WORK AROUND and I am going to show you all the steps I do when I need to print some document from my iPad.
- First I need to install these apps:
Printer Pro - https://appsto.re/pt/hVxCx.i
An app that should be able to do manual duplex printing on it's own for this price tag. If you know other app that would work with this method please let me know.
That's why I also need.
Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/pt/eHUj2.i
Any other code compiler app would do I'm only using this one for aesthetic reasons
- Second I need to prepare the playground:
Go to the Swift Playgrounds and create a new playground choose the template Answers. This http://pastebin.com/y9fj7RQj is the code I have done in case you are curious. I can now print only even/odd pages using this two apps. Allowing me to do a manual duplex print.
- Here is how I do it for every time I need to print a document from my iPad
1. Open the document I want to print in the Printer Pro app and see how many pages there are to print.
2. Go to the Swift Playgrounds and run the project I created earlier and insert the number of pages of the document.
3. Copy the first answer and paste it in the Printing range section of the Printer Pro app.
4. Press print on the right top corner.
5. After the printing is done insert the printed files back into the Printer in the correct way for printing on the other side of the paper
6. Copy the second answer and paste it in the Printing range section of the Printer Pro app.
7. Be mad at Apple for not having a better solution than this one
All Apple iOS developer team needed to do is to add the option to print only only even/odd pages. Or even better in case of the printer doesn't support automatically duplex print (because that is the only way that the option for double-sided print is enabled) insted of disabling the double-sided print option that option would do a manual duplex print by printing the even pages the show a popup asking if it can continue the print (that means that the user had inserted the printed files back to the printer for printing on the other side) and the print the odd pages and it's done.
I hope that someone in Apple read this and tell me if the environment is not worthy of this feature.
