Two-sided printing with Epson Artisan 810
13" MBP, 24" iMac, Mac OS X (10.6)
13" MBP, 24" iMac, Mac OS X (10.6)
Mike_Shade wrote:
After installing the printer using snow leopard's driver ver 8.17, i am unable to select two-sided printing under layout, the option is grayed out. Everything else works fine, including scanning. Is there any way to enable this duplex option?
DerekW78 wrote:
Has anyone experienced problems using the document feeder to scan? I'm hoping there's a similar workaround for this:
When I fire up the (included) scanner utility (which is just Image Capture, I think?)
Tony Baczynski wrote:
My 810 does two-sided when attached directly to the 10.6.4 Mac mini.
But it will not allow two-sided from the MM when shared though the G5.
I think part of the problem is that Epson doesn't use the Standard Apple menu, instead they have their own special one down at the bottom. And each time you print you need to check it because it doesn't remember the 2-sided settings.
Another "feature" of this printer has to do with printing CDs, DVDs & Blu-Rays. To print with anything other than the lame, Epson supplied, software, you have to know a secret. The secret is that you must have selected A4 as your paper size. Otherwise, it won't give you the option to print on optical media. If you are in Europe or Japan, this might not be an issue. But North America doesn't use A4.
Between the small paper tray, it's crappy drivers and other shortcomings, this printer is junk. The only reason that I didn't send it back was that it works really, really well with a continuous ink supply system. This is the first time I have ever used a CISS system. And I love it. A year and a half later, and the ink containers are still half full. I can't tell the difference in print quality between the third party CISS ink and the Epson stuff. Except for the fact that it is 100's of $$$$ cheaper, and I haven't had to go buy an Epson cartridge.
Two-sided printing with Epson Artisan 810