Question about double-sided printing

Alrighty here's the problem:

I created a brochure for my dad for a microscopy convention in san antonio.

The brochure's double sided, 11 x 8.5 inches, 300 dpi.

Well actually, that's not the problem, this is:

The printer I have has a duplex unit installed, which will automatically turn the pages over for double sided printing. The thing is, I'm not sure how to get this to work with photoshop. In word, for example, if the text you have overlaps onto another page, word creates a second page, and that second page is sent to the printer as a second page. Photoshop, however, deals in terms of images, not pages. I'm wondering...is there any way to get photoshop to see the front and back of a brochure as two different pages, each with an image on it? If this sounds confusing, tell me and i'll try to elaborate more. Basically, if you have an image that is two page lengths long in photoshop, and you try to print it, it will only show a portion of it, or you can size it to the page, which would be unacceptable. Is there any way around this? So that the part that doesn't fit on one page is sent to the printer as a second page rather than a part of one image?

Sorry if this is confusing...anyways if there's any way to do this, please tell me...if not, well, I guess it's back to handflippin'.

And in case you're wondering...no, i'm not that lazy, but we're printing about 1500 copies of this brochure, and turning it over ourselves would take a good bit longer. As it is we're already on somewhat of a tight budget time-wise.

honestly, i don't think there is. I ran into the same problem and never figured out how to get around it in photoshop. one thing i might suggest trying is saving each "side" of the brochure as it's own jpeg and pasting them into something that recognizes pages, such as word.

Print out 1500 pages, flip all of 'em at once, print out the other side. How is that hard?

it isn't. having to sit by the printer for a few hours to flip pages is a waste of time, which could be spent doing something more productive. It's not just the 1500 brochures...there are a bunch of leaflets, a couple of banners, and I have two weeks to do this. Just not enough time.... You find me a printer that can hold and print 1500 pages at a time, and I'll do it.

I don't really know of any solution beyond !mo0chan!'s, but it sounds like you may have misread his suggestion... (or maybe I'm misreading something...) but I don't think it'd be all too bad to print the 1500 on one side, and feed in as many as you can to print on the back (you'd have to sorta sit around to keep loading paper to do the front anyways, since your printer can't hold 1500 papers of course). But it's not like you have to turn every single sheet over everytime, such that you have to sit there the whole time, just put in as much paper as you can at once, go away and do something, and come back when it's time to load another stack of paper into the printer. Shouldn't hopefully take more than a 1-3 days, depending on how much time you can spend at home or where ever near the printer. Other than that I dunno how to print double sided with PS, unless you copy in paste into another program somehow so that it works like okplayer suggested.

If I had those files in my possession right now, I could have them printed and folded in about 3 hours. I'd called the local print shops, with whom I have developed good working relationships. High-volume laser printers are built for just such a job. For instance, a Canon CLC-1000 can hold about 5000 sheets of 60 # stock, it does duplexing, collating, and the print quality is really nice. But it would cost. Fast, perfect and cheap...honestly, you're only allowed to pick two out those three choices.

Do you not have access to a real page-layout application, like InDesign, QuarkXPress or Pagemaker? This is what you want...proper tool for the job. Sometimes trying to do something yourself is not the right choice. Don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Well...we took a trip to kinko's to find out how much it would cost, and it was something like 900 dollars. This is only the brochures, mind you. We have tons of other stuff to print, the brochures are maybe 1/4 of it. So we bought a minolta magicolor 3100...expensive, yes, but still less than it would have otherwise cost, and this way we get a printer out of it at the end.

Actually, I do have quarkXpress and indesign...never really thought of using those though.

And you're right, it really isn't a big deal to flip them over, just that we're pretty busy already and any time saved would help. Anyhow, it's not a huge deal, so I'll try quarkxpress and indesign, otherwise just flip them myself. Thanks though .