Techniques for achieving correct order in printer output

Abstract

Techniques for providing a face down orientation of printed media at a normally face up output of a printer. One technique achieves correct order orientation in a printer having a duplexing function, and includes printing a page of the print job at a print area, passing the page through a duplexing media path to reorient the page in a page down orientation, passing the page through the print area in the page down orientation without conducting a printing operation, and passing the page from the print area to an output area in correct order orientation. Another technique includes advancing a page from an input source to a print area, conducting printing operations on the page at the print area, transporting the page away from the print area, diverting the page into an auxiliary media path portion and transporting the page, leading edge first, until a trailing edge of the page passes a diverter location, transporting the page in the reverse direction such that the trailing edge now becomes the leading edge, and diverting the present leading edge of the page along a media path leading to the normally face up output, such that the page is presented to the normally face down output in a face down orientation.

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