How to Print Double Sided. This wikiHow teaches you how to use your Windows or Mac computer to print a document on both sides of a page. If your printer doesn't support double-sided printing, you can still manually set up double-sided. 6 Selecting Double-sided Printing Settings - Mac. 115 Double-sided Printing Options and Adjustments - Mac.

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 Reverse 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.)

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.

With my printer I can:

1. Select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Odd Only and print the pages.
2. Insert the pile of papers on the tray again so that the printed side is facing up and the text is not upside down.
3. 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:

1. Select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Odd Only and print the pages.
2. If the total number of pages is odd, remove the last page
3. Flip the pile of papers and insert it on the tray.
4. Select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Even Only, select Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Reverse, and print the pages.

I've found that for my printer at least (a Brother HL-3070CW), it's easier to:

• 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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Two-sided printing is turned on by default on Mac for supported printers. This means all your print jobs can end up being printed on two-sides, in case you forget to turn off two-sided printing on your Mac.

Disable Two-Sided Printing on Mac

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, homework submissions, resumes, air tickets and many other documents are mostly required to be printed on a single side.

While it is easy to turn off “Two-Sided” option before printing documents, many users forget this and end up having their documents printed on both sides of the paper, which is not what they wanted.

Hence, you are better off disabling two-sided printing on Mac, in order to prevent the possibility of paper, toner and your time being wasted by having to print the documents twice.

Mac Double Sided Printing Manual Free

In order to disable two-sided printing on Mac, you will have to first enable CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) Browser Interface on Mac. Once you are able to access CUPS, you will be able to make the required changes to disable two-sided printing on your Mac.

Enable CUPS Browser Interface

As mentioned above the print setup on Mac is based on CUPS, an open source modular printing system developed by Apple for Unix based systems. Mac pro radeon hd4870 cable installation manual. CUPS interface is disabled by default in macOS.

Follow the steps below to enable CUPS browser interface on your Mac.

1. Make sure that you are logged into your Admin Account on Mac.

2. Click on the Finder Icon located in the Task-bar of your Mac (See image below).

3. In the Finder Window, first click on Applications in the side-menu and then scroll down and click on the Utilities Folder (See image below)

4. In the Utilities Folder, click on Terminal.app (See image below).

5. In the Terminal Window, Enter the command sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes and hit the enter key on the keyboard of your Mac

Once this command is successfully executed, you will be able to access CUPS using any browser on your Mac.

Steps to Disable Two-sided Printing on Mac

After enabling CUPS interface on Mac, follow the steps below to access CUPS Settings page and disable two-sided printing on your Mac.

1. Open Safari browser on your Mac.

2. Go to http://localhost:631 – This will take you to CUPS Settings Page.

Note: Although you are accessing the CUPS Settings page via a browser, the page itself is not online. Mac sierra manual display error. Whatever you are seeing is located right on your computer.

3. When prompted, enter the Username and Password that you normally use to login to your Mac.

4. On the CUPS settings page, click on the Printers tab in the top menu bar (See image below).

5. You will see a list of printers. Click on the Printer for which you want to change the print settings.

6. On the printer’s configuration page. Click on the down-arrow next to “Administration” and then click on Set Default Options in the drop-down menu (See image below).

Disable Two Sided Printing On Mac

7. On the next screen, first click on Administration Tab, next click on Printing and then set Duplex Printing Mode to OFF position (See image below).

Disable Double Sided Printing Mac

For some printers the Duplex Printing Mode option is located under General Settings (See image below)

8. Next, Click on the Set Default Options button to save your changes.

Now, close the browser and try to print any document. You will see that two-sided printing option is no longer enabled by default on your Mac.

How To Print Double Sided On Pdf

From now, you will no longer go through those frustrating episodes of having to discard two-sided print jobs and printing them again. Also, you will still be able to print on two sides, in case you want to.