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How do I turn off two sided printing?

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When I print a PDF saved document is always prints on both sides of the paper. How do I turn this off.

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Your printer driver does not pass the necessary information to the OS. Acrobat can do nothing about that. You need to go to the printer's setup menu in the print dialogue of Acrobat and turn of two sided printing.

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Antti30763367n3sc

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This problem still persists. Does the same thing with HP printer. Found a simpler workaround - instead of printing click save and after that open with Adobe Distiller - save to pdf and print that.

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Marcellus314515354w5o

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This is idiotic! Adobe wont let you talk to a real person and they provide old information from 2016 that absolutely does not work. I have a 2012 Mac Catalina 10.15.7 and I cn print single side on anything other than the PDFs. So its definately NOT the printer as they always suggest. I will need to unistall adobe and use another PDF reader, like UPDF, Foxfit, PDF gear and so on. Adobe has no customer service. They only push sales.

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msthoughtful

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Hi, as I said above, you can do it by ensuring the default setting is set to 1 page in the CUPS interface as above. I've used this solution from Catalina all the way onto Ventura

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Marcellus314515354w5o

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When this is done will the print dialogue box give you the options for 1 and 2 sided copying or would you have to go through all those steps again to print something 2 sided?

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Adorobat

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Hi Michaelw,

To disable double-sided printing, uncheck the box next to "Print on both sided of paper" under Print dialogue.

Please refer to this link for more info: Print double-sided | Adobe Acrobat, Reader DC

Let us know if you have any further question.

Shivam

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tonywestsider

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Shivam: I have an Epson printer on a MAC. The print dialogue box does not show the option for print two sided under Size. I want to turn off two-sided printing, which is the default for all pdfs, even though under Properties the document shows single sided.

Andy

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Abambo

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Your printer driver does not pass the necessary information to the OS. Acrobat can do nothing about that. You need to go to the printer's setup menu in the print dialogue of Acrobat and turn of two sided printing.

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