Manual duplex (two-sided) printing on a Brother laser printer

I have a Brother HL-2280DW black & white laser printer.  I try to save paper by printing duplex when I can.  But sometimes the pages are on separate PDFs or image files.  I know I can use some free software like pdfsam but when I just need to print it out, I don't care to have a merged PDF.

The Brother support web site drove me nuts when I tried to find the information.  The short and easy method:

1) print your first page
2) take the printed page out, open the paper tray
3) put the in paper in with the printed side face DOWN [edit: this reversed on me later, what gives?  needed to be face UP - please add a comment if you know why it changes], with the top of the printed content toward the rear of the tray.
4) print your second page.  You should now have a perfect two-sided page with the words showing from the top down on both sides.

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