Epson: Double-Sided Printing (in Mojave)

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Epson: Double-Sided Printing (in Mojave)

I have an Epson XP-760 printer, and have updated the driver to the latest version in my Mac's System Preferences/Printers & Scanners. When printing from a text document (e.g. a Word document), I can select 'Double-Sided' in the ordinary way from the print dialog. But when printing a web page in portrait format from Safari, or printing a portrait format pdf document in Preview, I have to go to 'Printer Features', where, after scrolling a long way down through comprehensive colour-editing and similar features, I see two options for double-sided printing (why two?), which appear to have identical functions. Then I have to go to to 'Duplex Tumble' (the detachable unit on the printer is called a duplex unit) and select 'DuplexNoTumble'.

What a performance! And it seems that I cannot save my choices for the next similar printing task. I have emailed Epson about all this and they say that it is an Apple matter. That is why I am asking about it here.

It is true that by installing and using the Bonjour printer driver in Syst. Prefs. instead of the Epson one, I can even see the double-sided option directly in the main print dialog. But surely Apple and Epson could have got their heads together in order to make the 'official' Epson driver do double-sided straightforwardly, even from the Net or from a pdf?

I attach a screen shot of the relevant part of that long 'Printer Features' drop-down..

Mac mini, 10.14

Posted on Feb 3, 2019 11:44 AM

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Feb 3, 2019 4:00 PM in response to Michael Graubart

That's an Epson issue. You'll need to report it to them.

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Feb 4, 2019 2:58 AM in response to panchososa694

Thank you, panchososa694. In my post, I said that that was what I had done (months ago), and have done again after the latest printer driver update.

Printing a document or web page involves two applications: the one that opens the document or webpage and the one that sends instructions to the separate mechanical device that is one's printer. The relationship between the two applications is obviously a matter for the developers of both applications.

If I open a pdf document in Adobe Acrobat Reader or a webpage in Firefox, the current Epson driver lets me access double-sided printing in the ordinary way from the print dialog and relevant simple drop-down. If I open it in Preview or in Safari, it doesn't. Preview and Safari are Apple apps; Adobe Acrobat Reader and Firefox are not. That is why I have posted here as well as writing again to Epson.

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Epson: Double-Sided Printing (in Mojave)

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