This is for an HP PageWide Pro 577 MFP printer. Thing of it is, if you were using Apple Pages (which you could do, of course, by opening up a Word doc file), that 2-sided option is very much front and center: I know, because I recently was hit by the same confusion, digging and digging without being able to find the specific setting.

Turns out that there is indeed an option for two sided printing within Word for Mac, but it’s in an odd place. I believe it’s because Word has far more complicated printing options for documents, but be that as it may, it’s quite odd that you can’t choose duplex / 2-sided from within the Word print settings window. You will then see another page stating that the information change is completed.You’re definitely not the first Mac user to notice that Microsoft dropped a different printer driver interface into Word than it has in its other Mac programs. You will then be prompted to authenitcate to CUPS.Įnter the account name and password that has been set as the admin for this Mac. Change it from 2 Sided to 1 Sided and then scroll down the page until you see the Set Default Options button.Ĭlick on this button to save the change. Scroll down the list until you see the Print Style menu. This will show a new page with four menu headings (links) Options Installed, General, Banners and Policies. Then from the Administration drop menu, change to 'Set Default Options'. With the CUPS web page open, select the Printers tab and then select the printer you want to modify. Enter the admin password when prompted and then refresh the Safari view. To enable it, open Terminal and type 'sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes' (without the quotation marks). By default on 10.8, access to the CUPS page is blocked. You can change the default via CUPS, which is the core printing system of OS X. I just found it about 10 minute ago and it WORKED! I did a little happy dance I was so excited! This will change your default PERMANENTLY so you SHOULD never have to worry about double-sided ever happening by accident with any program. I have something you guys should try that are using Macs. And the weird part was always through the Adobe Pro.

For the last two days I have tried my friggin hardest to figure out why the heck this Mac kept printing double-sided to the Brother pinter I use at work.

I think I have the angels singing finally on my end.

Two sided printing greyed out mac