I'm in an office network environment, and would like to print on both sides of the paper when printing reports. One of our computers has this option available when you use the print menu, but the others don't have that check box in the print menu. Is there a way to turn this on? Most of the operating systems are Win 2000 Professional (including the system that will print both sides), a few are still on Win NT 4.0. Any suggestions?
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Double Sided Printing
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The feature you are describing is called "duplexing" and not all printers support this. The options that you see for your printer are based on the driver that is installed, which is based on the printer its controlling. If you don't see the option listed, that printer probably can't duplex.
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Yes, if the printer in question can duplex from one PC but not from another, than in all likelyhood the drivers these PCs are using are not the same. Install the driver that is allowing duplexing on all the PCs and it should work.
NOTE: W2K and NT 4.0 are pretty similar, but it is possible that a W2K print driver will NOT work correctly on a NT box. If this is the case for you, try going to the printer OEM's website and see if they have an NT driver for this printer that supports duplexing...
Good luck.
NOTE: W2K and NT 4.0 are pretty similar, but it is possible that a W2K print driver will NOT work correctly on a NT box. If this is the case for you, try going to the printer OEM's website and see if they have an NT driver for this printer that supports duplexing...
Good luck.
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