Printing multiple documents in single pdf on double sided printer

What is the best way to print a PDF document with a large number of documents so that the start of a successive document does not end up printing on the back page of the prior document? Each document has a cover page and could be used as a "key", but not sure how to set that "cover page" as the key which could then be used to instruct the printer to start on a new page - almost as if a new print job??

http://www.a-pdf.com/?product-mg
is a program which you can select a bunch of pdf files and combine them into one pdf. In the options pane , you can tell it to automatically add a blank page at the end of each odd numbered pdf file. You can simply then print the new combined pdf double sided on your copier, and it would print correct.
If you want to still have the pdf as separate pdfs, in Options you can select " bookmark by file name" before combining.
After combining, view the new pdf in Acrobat and you can 'split pdfs by top level bookmarks.

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