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Business Card Composer allows designing and printing double-sided cards. The program saves the front and the back sides of the card to the same file.
To open the desired side of the card, use View > Back Side or View > Front Side menu commands. The currently opened side is indicated by a tag at the bottom of the main window. You can also use it to move from one side to another.
Two methods can be used to print double-sided cards depending on the paper you have: printing on both sides of paper or using foldable paper.
You need to use paper that allows printing on both sides. If this is not indicated on the paper package, ask a store assistant or make a test print. Some perforated card paper can be right for this purpose.
The Print dialog allows to choose which side to print: front, back or both. If you print a single-sided card, only one side will be enabled.
Double-Sided printing requires you to insert every sheet in the printer twice (except for duplex printers).
Do not insert more paper sheets than needed into the printer!
If Duplex printing order is disabled, see the "Attention" message in the print dialog for needed quantity of paper sheets.
For instance, you are going to print 20 cards (10 cards per sheet, two sheets).
The printer task will be to print 4 sheet sides. You should insert 2 sheets into the printer and when they are printed, insert them with another side to print on. Make sure you have not made the upside-down rotation (if only you need it).
If you have inserted more than 2 sheets into the printer, it will not stop after printing the front side. The back side will get onto next two sheets. Do not make this mistake!
If Duplex printing order is enabled, the most possible, you will have to feed paper into the printer manually one by one. First, to print the front side, then the same sheet again, to print the back side.
Some printer models do this automatically - duplex printers.
See Printing Double-Sided Cards for additional information.
Another option is to use foldable paper, like Conqueror. The printing process is similar to printing single-sided cards.
The Conqueror paper has adhesive layer on the back of the paper. You should design the face of the card on the left part of the card template, and the back of the card - on the right side (or vice versa). After printing separate the cards from the page and fold them - the sides will stick to each other (in this respect the Conqueror paper is similar to folded card stock, but without the inside part).
More about Conqueror paper can be found on the Conqueror web site.