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How can I enable two

I have been trying to print double sided and watched many of the videos online about how to enable this option in Office, however, most of the videos were not from the latest OS and are outdated. Is there a different way to enable this setting on OS Yosemite? The option in Office is grayed out, and I need to figure out how to change the printer settings, but when I try to go through the System Preferences, and then Printers and Scanners, and Printer Queue, and Settings, there are no options relating to printing two-sided.

Two sided printing is only available if your printer has the capability. Since you didn't provide any information about the make and model of your printer, there is now way that anyone can help you.

I have the same problem, but it seems to occur only with Adobe Acrobat, Reader as well as Acrobat Pro DC. Printer used: Brother HL-1140D series. On my iMac I have Yosemite OS 10.10.5 and there is no way to print double sided. Screen shot Print window in Acrobat, there is no option next to the amount of copies to print two-sided and you can't find it somewhere else:

Screen shot, in this case printing from Firefox, where you see next to Copies the possibility to select Two- Sided:

Firefox and Adobe Acrobat use their own custom print panels, not the print panel from OS X. The lack of a Two-Page/Duplex setting on Adobe print panels is a matter that you need to address with them.

Adobe Reader (11.0.14), and Adobe Reader DC (15.010.20059) do not present duplex (Two-Sided) settings on their print panel. You must enable/disable duplex printing with your printer directly, providing your printer hardware supports it, via the web browser configuration for your printer, printer-specific software, or the OS X System Preferences : Printers & Scanners : <printer name> : Options & Supplies settings.

In Adobe Reader;  click the Printer button at bottom of print box,   in the print driver window, select a binding option in the Two Sided dropdown menu

Thank you for replying. I have tried what you advise already, but also there I see no two-sided possibility. So it is not Adobe only, also the Mac OS does not offer me what you suggests. Selecting in Options "General", "Supply Levels" or "Utility" doesn't help as well. When I print from "Mail" two-sided is available (see screenshot 3). Printing from Microsoft Word, again I find no 2-sided option (see screenshot 4). In Adobe InDesign you have to click first the button "Printer" where you can select two-sided. Printing from "TextEdit", "Keynote", "Preview", "Safari" and "Firefox" 2-sided option is visible directly after your print command. I did not included from each example a screenshot, but believe me, it is true.

Best regards,

Jerome

Select Finishing here:

Select Two-sided here:

Dear MrHoffman,

Thank you for this reply. That I had to check "Two-Sided" to be able to print two-sided was already long time clear to me, but that in the other cases I had to switch "Copies & Pages" to "Layout" to be able to select what I need had not yet reached me. Of course Apple has pampered us for long time so much with obvious places of much used tools (like just having to check "Two-Sided" next to the amount of "Copies" you want) that I overlooked that they could be nested a bit deeper. Once you are noticed by a convincing red mark on a screenshot it has to be found on that location and nowhere else, it is more easy to find it.

For those interested in the matter: in Adobe InDesign you have to click first the button "Printer…" (red marked) in the Print window to be spoiled with two different ways to switch on the two-sided print option (green marked).

I hope that with your reply the original post from poppyandsprout is solved too.

Thanks again and best regards,

Jerome

That's a pretty glib response-- and, alas, flat out wrong.  Just do some searching via Google or in these forums.  Many people have fully capable two-sided printers that *aren't* working.   It's related to the printer drivers and the operating system.

We have 2 Brother printers that work fine under recent OSs, doing two-sided printing with aplomb.  Under older OSs, though, the option is greyed out! 

Others have found when they upgrade to newer OSs, the 2-sided options are greyed. 

That's exactly the problem I got,

I have three printers at hand, and I'm sure that at least two of them support two sided printing:

HP laserjet 1022

Brother HL-3140CW

Samsung ML-2160

The option to print two sided is greyed out for all the three of them, with a previous version of the OS I could print double sided with the Laserjet 1022, and it worked like a charm.

Now it's all greyed out, how can I re-enable the double sided printing?

I've got El capitan, 10.11.6

and here's the driver versions for the brother and for the HP printers,

and here's the screenshots from the printer settings of the HP, only mention to the 'two sided printing' is in the layouts page, but that's greyed out.

This thread is an old one, and it's collecting what are unrelated questions.

According to the Brother web site, the HL-3140CW does not offer duplex printing hardware.  The Brother HL-3170CDW does; that's the D in the usual Brother printer model name.

According to the HP web site, the LaserJet 1022 is both a fairly old printer, and lacks support for duplex printing.

According to the Samsung web site, the Samsung ML-2160 also lacks duplex printing.

Apple has available printer troubleshooting information.   The usual general troubleshooting sequence — which won't help with the problem that dongiulio is reporting here, with duplex printing on a printer that lacks the necessary duplex printing hardware — is to try the following steps.  Confirm that the printer supports duplex printing with the printer vendor.   Then, try to remove and re-add the printer from your configuration and see if this clears, check for printer driver updates (from the printer driver vendor, via Apple), check for printer firmware updates, then check with the printer vendor. 

Hi guys! i just figured it out!!

I had the same problem for quite some time, the two-sided option was greyed out.

You have to do the following:

1. Go to "System Preferences" and further to "Printers and Scanners".

2. Hover over your printer title and right-click.

3. Click "Reset printing system..."

4. Click "+" to add a new printer.

5. Now attention please:

     a) click the field "Use", ignoring the default setting (e.g. Secure AirPrint), and

     b) select the original software for your printer (it may be Epson, HP etc...), there may be options, check them all out, one by one, until you find the one that explicitly offers you a "duplex" mode.

     See the screenshots below! this is fantastic!! Good luck!

     a) ignore the default setting (e.g. Secure AirPrint) and click the field "Use":

     b) click the field "Use" and select the original software for your printer (it may be Epson, HP etc...)

     c) click Add in the right bottom corner

     d) then, in the opened up window, check "duplexer" option or sounding something like this

     Et voila! you all set!

This did it.  thx.  didn't need to do any extra steps, just the first one of resetting the printer.  phew. canon MG

thanks!!!!

For anyone using an epson workforce printer and unable to double sided print on their mac, I have found a solution.

Follow the following steps:

1. Go to system preferences and click on printers and scanners

2. Select your printer and then make sure you are under the "print" tab.

3. Select options and supplies, then show printer webpage

4. When at the website, click the "back to main" button.

5. At top of the  page select advanced settings in the dropdown menu

6. Select printer setting from the list on the left side of the page, then select error settings

7. make sure auto error solver is switched to On.

You are done.

After hours of fighting, I now have the double sided page option when i go to print.

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