Help with printing static page on even pages of dynamic form

Hi folks in the OD universe!
I am relatively new to OD and I am trying like the dickens to get a form to duplex in a very specific way. I have slogged through all of the messages on duplexing and related issues, but haven't seen a solution that fits my problem.
I have an page of instructions that needs to print on the even (or odd don't really care as long as it is always there) pages of an existing dynamic PO form (with 4 subgroups - header, detail header, data, and footer).
So I made a working copy of the PO form and added the instructions page. My first thought was to try and use the instructions page as an extra footer piece, so I pointed to it from the footer on the old PO form in the At End-Of-Page part of the subform thing and then pointed the instruction page back to the headers of the PO form so it could continue on. Right now, the instructions are on page 1, so it prints the instructions, then the first page of a PO, then a bunch of instruction pages (infinite - I have to cancel the job on the printer). Making it duplex was the easy part.
So is this possible using the Subform Page Full and At End-Of-Page stuff or do I need to do some scripting to accomplish this (if so, any ideas on how to proceed). I am trying to make multi-page POs have the instructions on the front or back of each page of the PO.
Any advice on how to tackle this would be appreciated. I am going to continue my efforts and will reply to this thread once I figure something out.
Cheers!
Lucas

Hi Lucas,
The information below is from the print_ag.pdf which can be found on your server in the documentation directory
\checksurface (Duplex Mode and Surface)
Format
\checksurface
To check which surface of a page is currently printing, use the \checksurface command.
\checksurface detects the current print surface and causes a group event handler to activate.
Depending upon the actual surface, the event handler is one of:
A typical use for \checksurface is to force the printer to switch to a new front page when
printing in duplex mode, by conditionally inserting a blank surface on the back of the current
page. For example:
^define group:SECTION \checksurface\page1\fieldPOS
^define group:SECTION!DuplexFront \page3
Here the group SECTION uses the \checksurface command to determine the current duplex
surface. The event handler for the !DuplexFront event activates when the current print surface
is a front page. The event handler inserts page 3 from the current template as a filler surface on
the back before moving to page 1 on the next front surface. As a result, the new page 1 will be
on a duplex front surface, regardless of whether the previous page was a front or a back
surface. The filler surface may be entirely blank, contain static text, such as “This page
intentionally left blank”, or contain fields which are filled by global definitions active at the time
\checksurface is used. It may also contain a dummy field that can trigger a !FieldNotAvail
event specific to the insertion. In any case, Intelligent Pagination commands directly
referencing fields on that page should not be depended on, because the page is only
conditionally inserted.
For another method of performing surface specific processing, see “$duplexsurface (Duplex
Mode and Surface)” on page 281.
Regards,
Matt

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