Printing Alternating Labels

I have a design that I print onto a roll of labels. The roll has one label across. My Illustrator file has two artboards, one for the front label and another for the back label. When I print one copy of the file I get one copy of each label, which is ideal. But when I print more than one copy I get multiple copies of the front label and then multiple copies of the back label.
Printing 1 copy
Printing 3 copies
Desired output
FRONT
FRONT
FRONT
BACK
FRONT
BACK
FRONT
FRONT
BACK
BACK
BACK
FRONT
BACK
BACK
If I am to print 500 copies correctly it would seem that the only way I can do so is to print one copy 500 times. Obviously, this is not optimal. Can anyone suggest a way to accomplish this more effectively? Thank you in advance for any assitance.

Thank you all for your tips and suggestions. This is one of my first attempts at getting a solution on this forum and I am very grateful for the responses.
@CarlosCanto: I am unfamiliar with where to find the collate option. Would you (or anyone else) please advise where I may find this setting? FYI: I intiate print jobs with the default print dialog box which then allows me to access "printer specific" settings through a proprietary driver for my label printer.
@JETaImage: I have arrived at this solution but would appreciate being able to run labels once. I do not intend to run through the entire roll of lables so unloading 500 labels on a machine not intended to do so would be very problematic.
@stevefairbairn: You are correct sir. Two labels, one for each side of my container. I have a label applicator that takes advantage of F/B designs to offset the label spacing equally. Quite snazzy, if I could only get the labels to print accordingly.
@Jacob Bugge: Thank you, but I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that Acroat can achieve the print desired output and that Illustrator simply cannot? I'm perplexed as to why Acrobat would treat the print job as 500 individual jobs yet Illustrator insists on batching the pages in order. It's worth a try.
Can anyone tell me where this "collate" option setting found? I am on a iMac/CS4
I will try these suggestions but I would love to hear more ideas.
Thank you again everyone.
<SOLVED> Update: Jacob Bugge's suggesstion works. I did successfully print alternating Front/Back labels in Acrobat. Same 1600dpi print resolution, same color profile. Of course I had to adjust the paper size but other than that it printed. I tested by printing 2 copies of ALL PAGES in Acrobat and the output was
1st label:Page 1
2nd label:Page 2
3rd label:Page 1
4th label:Page 2
Thank you again everyone.

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