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michaelw78448122
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December 4, 2017
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How do I turn off two sided printing?

  • December 4, 2017
  • 3 replies
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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. 

    Correct answer Abambo

    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.

    3 replies

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    Antti30763367n3sc
    Participant
    October 8, 2024

    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.

    M
    Marcellus314515354w5o
    Participant
    August 2, 2023

    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
    Participating Frequently
    August 2, 2023

    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

    M
    Marcellus314515354w5o
    Participant
    August 2, 2023

    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?  

    Adorobat
    Community Manager
    AdorobatCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    December 4, 2017

    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

    tonywestsider
    tonywestsider
    Participant
    October 2, 2018

    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

      Supergraphic
      Supergraphic
      Inspiring
      October 27, 2022
      The control is in the Setup dialog.

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      Glenn

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