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Duplex printing describes a feature to print on one sheet of paper from both sides.

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Printing in booklet format

In the past I had a printer that had the booklet format option that would print the document two pages at a time ordered in a way that folding the whole printout would produce a booklet, half the size of the paper which could be stapled in the…
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duplex (double sided) print not available

I have a Brother HL-3150CDW printer, installed the driver from their website, and I can print fine, except that Duplex (double sided print) is not available. I've tried from a Windows computer and it works there, so I know it's possible. Any ideas…
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duplex printing by HP1108 using HPLIP

I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on my system and I use HP p1108 laserjet printer. Before Ubuntu, I was using the same printer with Windows 10. The duplex printing(Printing on both sides of the page) was supported there, but is grayed out in Ubuntu. Is…
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Manually duplex printing using HP LaserJet P1106

I have recently brought HP LaserJet 1106 printer. I have installed it and it is working fine. But problem is I want to print on both side of the paper. But I am not getting any option to do that. I am not even getting the option to print only odd or…
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Printer Manual Duplex Emulation?

My printer have Emulated Duplex Mode under Windows 7. In which it says " Turn all Papers DownSide " . But my Printer Driver in Ubuntu doesn't support long edge and short edge Duplex Emulation. Its a Duplex Emulation, not a real Duplex Machines. It…
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Can no longer set printer duplex option (but `lpr` works with duplex)

I can no longer set duplex and other printer options (Kubuntu 16.04). I have a Ricoh Aficio SP 4310N printer, with the matching driver selected as in the screenshots below. The only option I have under "Printer Options" is to query the printer for…
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Duplex printing stopped working (Lexmark X543)

The duplex printing has been working before, but now it has stopped working when printing from ubuntu (it works fine if I print from my Mac). I have no idea what I might have tampered with in order to make it stop working (actually I don't remember…
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Printing booklet A6 format

With pdfbook2 it is possible to convert a pdf from A4 format to one which one can print onto A4 format, but then fold the pages in the middle and get a booklet of A5 format. I would like to go one step further, and reduce this to A6: Print on four…
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Using duplex scan of HP OfficeJet Pro 8710

I'm having trouble understanding the process of getting the scanner of my HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 running completely on Ubuntu 17.04. Here is what I have done: I checked the hplip page for the printer. It says that Scan is supported. I installed hplip…
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How do I make duplex printing the default in Firefox?

I have an HP Colour Laserjet 4650hdn (not sure if that matters) hooked up to my PC. It can print double sided, and I would prefer for it to print double sided. Every-time I print something from Firefox, I must tell it to print double sided. I want…
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Duplex printing for Brother MFC-J870DW

I successfully (apparently) installed this printer using a driver specifically for this model downloaded from the Brother site, and am able to print, but although the printer is capable of printing duplex in Windows that option is "not available" in…
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Duplex printing with Samsung ML-2165W requires manual feed

I have a Samsung ML-2165W printer and I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. The printer works fine except for the duplex printing. Duplex printing requires to manually feed the paper after each printing, so if I try to print an eight-page document, in two-sided…
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Duplex printing gives punched holes in wrong place

When I print single sided, the punched holes (on A4) show up on the correct side of the documents. When I print duplex, the punched holes end up on the wrong side. (They should be on the left side if looking at the first page.) I understand there…
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Two-sided printing and collate option

Since I have a printer that can printed two-sided I have that option enabled by default to save on paper. Works nicely on my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. What I rarely need (and thus often get wrong) is to print several copies of a document. It turns out…
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Enabling Two-Sided Printing in Ubuntu-23.04

Running Ubuntu 23.04. I had problems with hplip-gui crashing and couldn't do a network installation of a HP ColorLaserJet printer. A post on this forum suggested edits to a configuration file. I made these edits, and now the hplip-gui app works,…
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