Duplex printing on Canon MG6150

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Duplex printing on Canon MG6150

Hey everyone,

I recently bought a Canon Pixma MG6150 printer which comes with automatic duplex printing. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

I want to use it in InDesign to create a booklet however, whenever I go into Print Settings>Printer>Duplex Printing & Margin everything is greyed out.

I've tried all the drivers I can find on the Canon website and the CD that came with the printer. I've heard about using older drivers, does this mean to download older OS drivers (I tried 10.5 and my Mac said it was not possible to install) or older drivers from Canon?

Any ideas? Thanks!

Mac OS X (10.6.8), Canon MG6150

Posted on Oct 29, 2011 4:22 AM

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kitgar

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Jul 25, 2017 6:45 AM in response to sophfielding

I realize that you posted this some time ago and likely won't see this reply but I just had to say thanks! I was having this duplex printing issue with my Canon Pixma MX922 and could not figure out the cause. Duplex printing (or two sided as my settings call it) was not greyed out on my settings so I had no idea the media type could be the cause of the problem. Once I changed the media type to plain paper the duplex printing worked consistently. Thank you!!!!

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sophfielding Author

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Oct 29, 2011 5:11 AM in response to sophfielding

I fixed the problem, however I've seen a lot of questions about the Canon duplex printing issues with some Mac users so I thought I'd put my solution up to help anyone else.

Going through the On-Screen Manual that comes with the CD I found out that:

When a media type other than Plain Paper, Hagaki A or Hagaki is selected from Media Type menu of Quality & Media, Automatic Duplex Printing appears grayed out and is unavailable.
When Borderless Printing is set, Automatic Duplex Printing appears grayed out and is unavailable.
Automatic Duplex Printing can be performed only when one of the following paper sizes is selected from Paper Size.
US Letter, A5, A4, B5 JIS (JB5), Hagaki
After printing the front page, there is an ink drying wait time before starting to print the back page (Operation stops temporarily). Do not touch the paper during the time. You can change the ink drying wait time from Custom Settings in the Canon IJ Printer Utility.

After going through the printing settings and following these regulations, Duplex Printing was no longer grey!

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