I'm embarrassed to ask this… A family member has a Brother MFC-J870DW printer. When a document is printed, page 1 comes out first, 2 second, and so on. After the job is complete, all of the pages must be reversed by hand. A large document becomes acutely inconvenient.
I want the printer to output the pages in the order expected by a human reader. I found two settings in Brother's printer control panel that appear to control the behavior. The first is Mirror and the second is Reverse. Unfortunately, neither cause the printer to output the pages in the order a human reader would read them. Both flipped the page on an axis.
I also searched on the Internet, but search results are being drown out by irrelevant noise. See, for example, Google search of brother print for human reader. (I have to avoid words like Reverse since they are known to be incorrect).
How do I tell the Brother MFC-J870DW printer to print pages so that the resulting collection of pages is in order expected by a human reader?
For completeness, here are the settings I have tried to change in an effort to resolve the issue:
Best Answer
You don't.
Trying to reverse the pages by the printer driver is the wrong place.
Use the application program that submits the print job (e.g. Adobe Reader) to reverse the order of the pages. This would typically be the same dialogue window where you can select printing one page or the whole document or specify the number of copies.
The above screencapture is immediately displayed after I've clicked the "Print" option off the Linux Firefox browser toolbar.
Another application, Adobe Reader, will offer this print otion window (courtesy of @Tyson)
You cannot setup this reverse page as a permanent configuration; you'll have to select "Reverse" for every multipage print job.
Unfortunately not all application programs (e.g. Firefox for Windows) offer this reversal of pages.