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I've been creating printer document

I've been creating printer document

I've been creating printer document

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I've been creating printer documents that contain a duplex and simplex page. I've been adding a blank page to the back of the simplex page to make it appear as a duplex page and simplex page, but actually is duplex for the entire document, which as been controlled at the printer. It is also being pulled from 2 trays and stapled. The code worked fine, but now I need to actually make the document toggle between duplex and simplex. Not that familiar with postscript. Just takes a lot of experimentation to get things to work.

The working code, before needing to specify duplex/simplex is -
"<</MediaColor (pink)>> setpagedevice << /Staple 0 >> setpagedevice << /Staple 3 /StapleDetails <</Type 1 /StapleLocation (SinglePortrait) >> >> setpagedevice"

I tried -
"<</MediaColor (pink)>> setpagedevice << /Staple 0 >> setpagedevice << /Staple 3 /StapleDetails <</Type 1 /StapleLocation (SinglePortrait) >> >> setpagedevice <</Duplex true/Tumble false>> setpagdevice", but not only does it not print, it fails to generate as a pdf file. It does as a postscript, but that file can't be distilled.

The error I get for pdf generation is PDF creation failed.
Log file error message:
%%[ Warning: Empty job. No PDF file produced. ] %% Normalizer 8.0 UsePrologue is false. %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: setpagdevice ]%% Stack: -dict- %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% ExternalCommand on page 1 :F %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% Normalizer job 1 failed (2) -- aborting 5472256 bytes read from file \\WEB2PRINT1\Xmpie\XMPieOutput\7\720534\PDF2132simplexduplex_sjw2.txt_1.ps: FAILED Done

Any thoughts? Definitely need it to generate both a ps and pdf. I'll try printing the postscript to see if that works, but doubt it.

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