I have a Xerox 8570DN printer which has duplex capability. When printing from OSX on my iMac and my Mac Mini, the pages all come out duplex. The proper driver is loaded but there is no way to turn off (or turn on) duplexing.
This is simple in Windows (and is probably simple on the MAC) but I can't locate it.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Depending on the application you are printing from you will need to locate the Layout option when printing. For example in Pages when you try to print it will automatically have an option to enable/disable two-sided printing. Otherwise look for a Layout option and it will give you a two-sided page option.
I am encountering this and it's unbelievably annoying.
Office for Mac overrides any printer settings and will DEFAULT to duplex. I have not found a way to globally turn this off. To turn it off, as far as I can find, you have to MANUALLY do it every time you print. Yeah, read that again.... manually, every time you print... Pathetic eh?
So here's how you manually do it (at least in excel in office for mac)
File -- Print -- Copies & Pages -- Xerox Features - 2 Sided Printing
Now, you can save that as a print profile, but you have to find a way to force OSX to use that every time.
Good luck, if you figure it out please reply here.
This has been a constant frustration for us. Although I see value in double siding as a choice, the number of times you have to reprint something or seperate it at the copier is very frustrating. This is something that should be solved. I really don't care who solves it or not. You are adding 2 or 3 extra steps to every print job. The copier we are using is the workcenter 5735 from a new macbook pro.
This happens to our 8570DN's as well. The fix is to use the CUPS interface to set the default options and turn off Duplexing.
Go to:
http://localhost:631
You may need to run a terminal command to enable the CUPS interface, which is annoying in itself:
sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes
Once you're in, go find your printer, and Set Default Options, and change Duplexing to off. Then it'll "stick", otherwise the OSX UI interface will always default back to Duplex printing. It's aggravating - I currently found your question because I'm looking for a way to make this the default option when I create new printers on a new laptop using lpadmin (so far I haven't found the right -o option).
Anyway, hope this helps.
Plochner, thanks for this tip!
I contacted Xerox tech support and was told that there is no setting on the printer to make it default to single sided. Unfortunately it follows what the OS feeds it. And without these CUPS settings I don't see any other way to make it default to single page printing.
Please follow up if you DO find a command line equivalent for this - I'd love to push it out via Remote Desktop to all of our computers here.
Jeff
A solution could be modifying the <printer>.ppd file into /etc/cups/ppd with a sed command. This is an example for a BizHub C654e :
sed -i bak -e 's/DefaultKMDuplex\:\ Single/DefaultKMDuplex\:\ Double/' /private/etc/cups/ppd/<printer>.ppd
The -i creates a copy of the original file, useful if it doesn't work.
Open up the print dialog box, select "Xerox ColorQube 8570DN," click on the third dropdown list provided, then select "Xerox Features" at the bottom of the list. (See image below.)
Under Xerox Features, toggle the options under "2-Sided Printing" so as to select 1-Sided Printing.
That should do the trick.
You might have trouble saving this as a default setting for future print jobs, but it beats the heck out of printing one sheet at a time! (Especially for large print jobs, mail merges, etc.)
This is the command we had to use for our Xerox ColorQube 9302 (where
Albeit belated for the originator of this question, for those still experiencing the "auto" 2-sided printing default, rather than posting detailed instructions here, following is a very useful link on how to override this somewhat annoying (for a busy office) default, from Apple user "PAHU." FYI, the 2-sided default is a feature of the Apple OS printer interface.
Follow all the directions, steps to the following link. If you cannot get the printer to 1-sided default, you have not followed all the steps properly. We use this for our Xerox WorkCentre printers but it should work for all printers on OS X.
The steps involve a very simple procedure for the CUPS printing system for OS X, the first reply from "PAHU" at this link: How to STOP default two sided printing
Thanks to Apple user "PAHU" for sharing this useful link.
Best wishes and remember to follow all the steps closely.
How do I turn off duplex print on my Xerox 8570DN?
