Duplex Printing in Leopard?

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msb212

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• Apr 7, 2008

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Hi - I have a Brother 5280DW printer which is supposed to offer duplex printing. I have an IMAC running the latest Leopard, but there seems to be no option anywhere I can find to choose duplex (double sided) printing...

anyone have any ideas or guidance?

Thanks very much for any help or direction you can give me!

 

Cave Man

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• Apr 7, 2008

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In the print dialog box, choose the Layout pull-down option. If your printer and its driver supports duplex, that's where it'll be.

 

mreg376

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• Apr 8, 2008

• #3

msb212 said:

Hi - I have a Brother 5280DW printer which is supposed to offer duplex printing. I have an IMAC running the latest Leopard, but there seems to be no option anywhere I can find to choose duplex (double sided) printing...

anyone have any ideas or guidance?

Thanks very much for any help or direction you can give me!

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I had a similar problem with my HP DeskJet 5550. The native Leopard drivers did not support duplex (despite the fact that HP's website advised to use the Leopard drivers). I had to install some older OS X drivers from the HP website, now duplex works fine.

 

Eraserhead

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• Apr 8, 2008

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Cave Man said:

In the print dialog box, choose the Layout pull-down option. If your printer and its driver supports duplex, that's where it'll be.

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In Safari there are safari specific printing options so its called Safari in that. You have to expand the print dialog to full size to see the options too.

The option you are looking for in the list is Two-Sided printing.



Personally I have an option called "Standard Two Sided" setup for two sided printing.

 

Cave Man

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• Apr 8, 2008

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Eraserhead said:

In Safari there are safari specific printing options so its called Safari in that. You have to expand the print dialog to full size to see the options too.

The option you are looking for in the list is Two-Sided printing. Personally I have an option called "Standard Two Sided" setup for two sided printing.

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Yes, and it's under the Layout pulldown.

 

Eraserhead

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• Apr 8, 2008

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Cave Man said:

Yes, and it's under the Layout pulldown.

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Yes, but in some programs layout is the top choice, but in Safari the top choice is Safari .

The pulldown does always have layout options as one option though.

 

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msb212

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• Apr 8, 2008

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HALLELUJAH! Thanks!

 

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krdk

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• Jun 20, 2009

• #8

Double-sided printing

Hi-- I can't find any of the menus mentioned in this thread-- under Safari, Word, or Pages, that will allow either of my duplexing capable printers to print double-sided. I have a Brother 5250DN, and an Oce' CX2100 (all in one printer, scanner, copier, fax).

Help please!!!http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/frown.gif

 

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krdk

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• Jun 20, 2009

• #9

Found help

This web-site has the information that I needed. For all those looking for help with duplexing, try this website:

http://lbis.kenyon.edu/helpline/duplexprinting_mac:)

 

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durhamj

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• Jul 22, 2009

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krdk , Page not found

krdk said:

This web-site has the information that I needed. For all those looking for help with duplexing, try this website:

http://lbis.kenyon.edu/helpline/duplexprinting_mac:)

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Can you spell out the answer to getting duplex printing on the 5250DN?? the page you referenced is no longer available. Thanks in Advance

 

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dilipc

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• Oct 4, 2009

• #11

HP LaserJet CM2320nf MFP

I have the Laserjet 2320 which I bought recently. I have an iMac, running Mac OS X (version 10.5.8). For the life of me, I can't duplex print! I've marked the "two-sided option" in the dropdown Layout menu, but when I click print, it simply prints one sided.
Can anyone help?