I suspect that perhaps the printer or the system is in some kind of manual double-side printing mode, but I could not find where I can turn it on or off using the Mac OS printing dialogs. How can one control manual double-side printing on a Mac OS X Lion? The 'manual' two-sided printing should allow you to print on both sides of the pages. The difference is that the printer should print all odd pages first, then ask you to pick up the printed pages and feed them back at the paper tray. If you are using a Windows system, you can do manual double-sided printing by selecting the 2-sided printing option in the driver settings of Printer. Further, to print on both sides of the page from your computer, you have to load plain paper or Epson Bright White Paper and choose 2-Sided Printing (Windows) or one of the Two-sided Printing. How to Free Up Space on Your Mac Hard Drive With This Simple Trick. Manual Two-Sided Printing on HP Printers from a Mac Computer HP Printers. Double-sided printing - Duration. If you see options on any of the tabs for printing on both sides of the paper, duplex printing, or two-sided printing, the printer probably supports automatic duplex printing. If your printer supports duplex printing, follow the directions in the printer manual to create duplex copies. As mentioned above, the default behaviour in macOS is to automatically turn on two-sided printing in case a printer that supports Duplex Mode is connected to a Mac. However, not every document is suitable for two-sided printing. In-fact, most day to day use documents like school/college essays.
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I have an HP 1022 printer attached to my Mac OS X Lion.
When I try to print a 4-page PDF file from Preview or Adobe Reader, it prints pages 1 and 3 and then all 3 lights on the HP 1022 printer start blinking.
I suspect that perhaps the printer or the system is in some kind of manual double-side printing mode, but I could not find where I can turn it on or off using the Mac OS printing dialogs.
How can one control manual double-side printing on a Mac OS X Lion?
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You can go to
Print & Scan
in the system preferences and select Options & Supplies
for your printer. In there, you should see an option for Duplex Unit
(if your printer supports it). If that is checked, you can use the automatic double-side printing (by checking the Two-sided
box next to Copies
). If not, or if that option is unavailable, you can't.In case you can't select that option, here's how you can manually print double-sided pages.
Manual double-side printing
You can control manual double-side printing (i.e., you physically turn the sheets over) using the
Paper Handling
setting in the print dialog.If you select
Paper Handling
, you'll find a Pages to Print
option that lets you print either only the odd pages or only the even pages (default is both). To print double side manually, select Odd Only
first and when it finishes printing, flip the pages over and select Even Only
Instead of flipping each page over to its blank side before printing the even pages, you have a more convenient option of flipping the entire block of pages, so that the last sheet is on top (useful when you have a lot of pages to be printed). With this, you can then choose
rm -rfrm -rfReverse
in Page Order
to print the even numbered pages backwards. (Note: be careful that if you have an odd-number of pages in total, you might have to leave the last one out before printing the even ones.)2,51644 gold badges2323 silver badges4848 bronze badges
In a search, I just found this great tool from HP that facilitates manual duplex printing from OSX with minimal steps. I just tried it with success using my Epson NX-515.
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With my printer I can:
- Select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Odd Only and print the pages.
- Insert the pile of papers on the tray again so that the printed side is facing up and the text is not upside down.
- Select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Even Only and print the pages.
With a printer that prints on the other side, follow the steps described by rm -rf:
- Select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Odd Only and print the pages.
- If the total number of pages is odd, remove the last page
- Flip the pile of papers and insert it on the tray.
- Select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Even Only, select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Reverse, and print the pages.
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I've found that for my printer at least (a Brother HL-3070CW), it's easier to:
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- print the even pages first
- flip the pages so the printed side is up and put them back in the tray
- print the odd pages
This way you end up with the pages in the correct order when finished and don't have to worry about selecting reverse.
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Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat let you print double-sided if your printer supports that feature. The printer driver controls the options, not Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Check your printer documentation to see what features your printer supports. (Double-sided printing is also called duplex, back to back, front and back, or two-sided printing.)
(Mac) Print double-sided in Acrobat DC, Acrobat Reader DC
Currently, the print settings in macOS take precedence over the print settings in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. When you try to print double-sided in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, the printer does not print as per the specified settings in Acrobat/Reader. Therefore, you have to configure the print settings using the CUPS admin interface in Mac.
Configure the print settings in CUPS admin interface
CUPS (formerly known as Common UNIX Printing System) is a network printing service used by Mac computers. It allows you to set up your printers on a network, and customize printer options. By default, the CUPS web interface is disabled on Mac.
Note:
The settings specified in the CUPS interface overrides the print settings in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.
Steps to enable or disable double-sided printing using the CUPS interface
Mac Double Sided Printing Manual Download
- Open the Terminal application on your Mac. To open Terminal, do one of the following:
- Click the Finder icon in your dock. Click Go > Utilities. Open Terminal.
- In the top left menu on your Mac, click the Spotlight icon (), and type Terminal. Open Terminal.
- At the prompt, type
sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes and press Return - Enter your Mac computer password when prompted and press Return.
- Open Safari or any other browser, and type http://localhost:631 in the address bar and press Return. The CUPS web page is displayed.
- Go to the Printers tab and select your printer from the list.
- In the Administrators drop-down list, choose Set Default Options.
- To enable double-sided printing, select Long-edge Binding or Short-Edge Binding for the Two-Sided option. To disable double-sided printing, choose Off.
Your printer is now configured. Open a PDF in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader and print the PDF.
(Mac OS) Print double-sided in Acrobat, Reader 10 or earlier
- (Reader X/Acrobat X) Click the Printer button at the bottom of the Print dialog box, and then click Yes when prompted.
- Make sure that the Print dialog box is in the expanded mode by clicking the arrow to the right of the Printer pop-up menu.
- In the Print dialog box, choose Layout from the pop-up menu.The Print dialog box with Layout selected from the mode pop-up menu. Long-edge binding is selected from the Two-Sided pop-up menu.
- From the Two-Sided pop-up menu, select a binding option.
- Click Print, and then click OK from the main Print dialog box.
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(Windows) Print double-sided in Acrobat DC, Reader DC
- Select Print On Both Sides Of Paper in the printer dialog.
(Windows) Print double-sided in Acrobat, Reader 10 or earlier
- Click the Layout tab. This dialog varies printer to printer. It's possible that your dialog doesn't match the dialog boxes shown below.
- Make a selection from the Print On Both Sides pane. Depending on the printer driver, this pane can be called 'Double-sided printing' or a similar name. If you don't see a Print on Both Sides pane, then your selected printer doesn’t support duplex printing. Or, the feature is turned off (see Verify that printer features are turned on).
(Windows) Verify that printer features are turned on
If you do not see a double-sided option, it's possible that feature isn't turned on.
- Choose Start > Printers And Faxes (Windows XP) or Start > Devices and Printers (Windows 7).
- Right-click your printer and choose Printing Preferences.
- Select the desired options and then choose On from the pop-up menu. If you don't find duplex printing and stapling in the options, then your selected printer doesn’t support those features.
- Click OK, and then click OK again to exit the dialog box.
If your printer doesn't support double-sided printing, you can manually print your document using both sides of the paper. The steps vary depending on the way the printer feeds and outputs the pages. Print a few test pages following the instructions to understand how to feed the pages back into the printer.
Follow these instructions if the printer outputs the pages in numerical order (starting with page one). The pages exit the printer face down (common with laser printers).
- From the Subset pop-up menu In the Print Range area, select Even Pages Only.
- Select the Reverse Pages option. In this scenario, the Reverse Pages option ensures that the page sequence is correct.
- If the total number of pages is odd, add a blank sheet so the final odd page has a sheet to print on.
- Put the stack of printed paper back into the supply (source) paper tray so that the unprinted sides print. Point the top of the pages toward the printer. Make sure that the edges of the paper stack are square.
- Choose File > Print and select Odd Pages Only from the Subset menu. (Do not select Reverse Pages this time.)
Follow these instructions if the printer outputs the pages in reverse order (last page first). The pages exit the printer face up (common with inkjet printers).
- From the Subset pop-up menu in the Print Range area, select Even Pages Only.
- If the total number of pages is odd, add a blank sheet so the final odd page has a sheet to print on.
- Put the stack of printed paper back into the supply (source) paper tray so that the unprinted sides print. Point the top of the pages toward the printer. Make sure that the edges of the paper stack are square.
- Choose File > Print and select Odd Pages Only from the Subset menu.
- Select the Reverse Pages option. In this scenario, the Reverse Pages option ensures that the page sequence is correct.
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