has anyone discovered what this does, or is supposed to do? we just finished a lab in our Service Dept and I can't for the life of me understand what this feature does. Can anyone edumicate me?
Thanks.

I think it removes blank pages

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Originally posted by J.D. POWER:
has anyone discovered what this does, or is supposed to do? we just finished a lab in our Service Dept and I can't for the life of me understand what this feature does. Can anyone edumicate me?
Thanks.

Without smart duplex, if you print a document with an odd number of pages, the last one will also duplex, and dutifully add a click on the total counter as it prints a blank, refeeds, and then prints the odd page.

Smart duplex will just output that last page without going through the duplex refeed, and not waste a meter click. Also if it's just a single-page doc, it will just feed 1-sided (beneficial to me as I have my home FS-1020D print driver defaulted to duplex in my driver).

I still don't get it, Chris. When I did the test that prompted this post I watched the 300ci and with a 3 page doc both printed pages went thru the duplexer. With a 4 page doc, with the last page being blank, both of those 2 printed pages went thru the Duplexer. And in both instances the counter clicked 4 times.
Still confused, but that's becoming more and more normal the older I get.

maybe im missing something but where is smart duplexing? i was looking at my 250ci

Shep,
It's in Driver Properties, under the Device tab, hit the PDL button and then the Settings button. Same place as where we used to be able to defeat Auto- Drawer Switching. Has anyone found how to stop Drawer Switching on the TASKalfas?