How to print double sided on Mac?

Double-sided printing is a function of the driver supplied by HP. Whatever printer you have, go to HP's support website, search for the driver appropriate for whatever version of OS X you are running, download, and install it.

I looked on the hp website but all it gave me was the software to install for the printer. Not a driver for double sided printing.

To print double-sided automatically, a printer needs an internal mechanism to flip over and re-feed one sheet to print on the other side. Most consumer printers do not have this mechanical gear, and therefore cannot support this feature.

If your printer does not have the ability to do this automatically, there are ways you can print documents double-sided, but it requires manual intervention in the process.

In broad terms, you print the even pages on one side, flip the stack and print the odd pages on the other side.

There are many details that need to be worked out for trouble-free double-sided printing. Readers would be glad to help you if this is what you are facing.

this is what i'm talking about in a way. I was able to do it before where i printed all the pages. just turned the page over after each turn.

This is the method I use for printing a 9-page manual. I have a printer that provides Face-down delivery of the finished pages.

1) First, print the even pages oddly (in reverse order)

2) -- then flip the output stack to the input tray, ready to print the reverse sides --

3) Then print the odd pages evenly

so after step 1, I have pages 8,6,4,2 face down in the output tray. I take that stack and move it to the input tray facing the right way to print the odd pages. Then pages 1,3,5,7, are printed on the opposites side of the paper, and page 9 prints on a blank sheet. Pages are in the output tray in correct order, face down.

The controls for doing this are on the "Paper Handling" pane of the standard Print dialog box, under Pages to Print {all, odd, even} and Page Order {Normal, Reverse}.

If your printer provides face up delivery, you will have to draw yourself some little diagrams and figure out exactly where to change my procedure, or invent a comparable one for your situation. The advantage to the rhyme is that I don't have to try to find the stinkin' piece of paper with the little diagrams a year from now when I want to print two-sided again.

The general procedure is to print the document's odd pages. When it's finished, take the stack of printed pages, put them back in the paper tray (head first, feet first, upside down, right side up, depending on your printer's design) and print the even pages, one of which will jam in the printer half way through. Throw out that page and stop the remaining print job to preserve the odd pages remaining in the paper tray. Figure out what pages are missing and print them. Repeat until exhausting either your paper supply or your sanity. Finally, take your Mac to Staples who will do it for about three bucks. While you're there buy a nice wireless laser printer with a built-in duplexer:

http://www.brother-usa.com/Printer/ModelDetail/1/HL2270DW/

... or $99 from Amazon.

First, print the even pages oddly (in reverse order)

Stop. I'm confused already.

Once again, John brings sanity (pay Staples to do it) to an insane process. Thanks, John!🙂