Comment 4 for bug 191655

Try acroread (version 8) and see if you get the same behavior:

>sudo apt-get install acroread
>acroread documentthatyouwanttoprintonbothsides.pdf

If this works, then at least you have a work around.

I have a duplexer on my printer so I've never used reverse printing with evince.

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