Orienting Text and Images on a Page

With an advanced function printer, you can print text and images in any of four orientations on a page, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Available Orientations

Portrait Orientation

Text and images printed parallel to the shorter side of the forms are in a portrait orientation.

Figure 2. Portrait Orientations

Landscape Orientation

Text and images printed parallel to the longer side of the forms are in a landscape orientation.

Figure 3. Landscape Orientations

Normal and Tumble Duplex

By using a combination of printing directions and orientations, you can put a document together in four different ways. Figure 4 shows documents printed with normal duplex. Notice that the pages are printed in the portrait orientation for Document A and in the landscape orientation for Document B.

Figure 4. Normal Duplex

Figure 5 shows documents printed with tumble duplex. Notice that the pages are printed in the portrait orientation for Document C and in the landscape orientation for Document D.

Figure 5. Tumble Duplex