color laserjet 2300 duplex printing

[y2k1981]

I'm trying to configure a printer to duplex print. I've set the duplex unit to installed but when I print it doesn't print duplex automatically - I have to go into options and click print on both sides. How do I do this so that it will automatically print duplex every time? The printer is a networked printer and the spool is remote on a server so users connect to it via unc rather than creating a TCP/IP port locally.

I want to make all the necessary changes to the driver on the server and then have all the users delete and reinstall the printer so that they will get all the settings I make.

I'm sure this is possible as I remember once printing that 2 page configuration page on a HP printer and it printed it duplex.

hope somebody can help

 

[hpwizzard]

Ehm... Do you have a HP Color LaserJet 2300 ? I never heard about this model, perhaps you mean the Color LaserJet 2500 ? If so, that one only has manual duplex, where you have to flip and reinsert the paper yourself into the trays when duplexing. To enable this in the driver you tick the option box in the driver Enable manual duplex

 

[y2k1981]

to be perfectly honest, the printer is in france ... and I'm in England so obviously I can't say I'm 100% sure but the dirver that's installed for the device is for a laserjet 2300 and it's printing ok with that driver (aside from the duplex thing that is !!). I looked up laserjet 2300 on HP's website and there is such a printer.

I was above to successfully print duplex but only when I went to options in the print dial box and checked the "print on both sides" option. How can I make this setting permanent?

 

[hpwizzard]

There is a LaserJet 2300, but that one is a monochrome printer, so it cannot be a colorprinter. The LaserJet 2300 can only do duplex if it`s a D, DN or DTN model. The regular LJ 2300 or N/L model can only do duplex manually just like in my previous post. Try to check up on what model it is excatly to get closer to a solution to this issue.

 

[y2k1981]

hi again, sorry for not responding sooner. you're right, it is monochrome - I don't know why I thought it was color. I don't know what model it is exactly, but I got it to print duplex automatically by checking the "print on both sides" box in the printer properties dialog. My problem was that I thought that this setting wasn't being saved and that the user would have to check it every time, but then I realized it was actually being saved.

However, now my problem is that they inform me they DON'T want it to print duplex all the time, just when they specify. This is ok, I can tell them to just select "print on both sides" for that. However, then it keeps the setting so next time they'd have to uncheck it. How can I make it so that it'll just save the setting for the current job?

sorry about all the hassle, and thanks for your help. You really do live up to your name !!

 

[hpwizzard]

It`s no hassle at all, as I learn too of what issues are actually out there in the public with HP printers, and how these can be resolved or prevented
Well, I think there is actually only very few options to avoid the Print on both sides option "ticking". You could install two equal drivers for the same printer with different settings when it comes to the duplex function, but then the user(s) must select what printer driver each time instead of changing the properties. You could then fx. name one driver LJ 2300 single sided and the other LJ 2300 duplex. I can`t really think of any other way to fix this unless there would be a pagedefault setting, fx. save a blank document in Word or whatever application you use where you would change driver properties as those are usually saved with the document. Most newer windows applications have their own driver properties if you access them from within the application instead of going into the printers folder and do the changes in the driver itself. Next you would then load this blank document each time prior to creating the actual document just like using a sort of template.