How do I print single sided on a Mac or turn off double-sided printing.

[MinoviLaw&Mediation]

How do I turn off double-sided printing on a Mac? The archives had an answer for this question for a PC but I am using a Mac laptop. Thank you.

[westfordjoe]

Thank you Kindly, mkrieger50.  I'll give your suggestion a try.

[jackieh49490358]

I All, I have been struggling with this for a while. I had to Uninstall Printer and UPDATE THE PRINTER DRIVER FROM SCRATCH of the brand ( mine was SHARP) and that fixed it. I had to contact the Printer Company to get the setting right but that worked. I hope that helps

[rebhack1]

I followed the steps on the Help Page that Tariq Dar gave. It all went smoothly until cups.org asked for a UN & PW in order to save the changes. I went to the home page and searched around on cups.org and didn't see where I could login and get a UN & PW. What am I missing?

[jamesc41322552]

When I received the sign-in box, I tried my computer name and the PW for the computer, and it worked.  

[maiasimon]

this solution involves skills that most end users don't have.  completely unhelpful.

[AutopilotingMom]

I found a website that helps fix this issue. It requires you to access the terminal. https://www.howtogeek.com/309677/how-to-stop-two-side-printing-from-being-the-default-in-macos/

[Thomas5E68]

I have the default for two-sided printing set to "Off" on a MacBook Pro 16" running Catalina 10.15.6.  However, whenever I print, the default shown is two-sided.  Printer is an HP8600 all-in-one and I have downloaded the current driver (June 2020 update).  Apple Support could not resolve the problem and said I'd have to talk with HP, which I haven't done yet.  Any suggestions?  It is very frustrating - I do only legal documents and they are never printed two-sided.

[Andrew27337219fq8n]

One thing you can do is to open the pdf in Preview and print from there. You can select double or single sided as you wish.

[David22460432ekmg]

For those who may be still having this problem, here's what worked for me.  When the print dialogue box appears, there is a box at the bottom called "Printer" (it is to the right of "Page Setup").  When I click on it, there is a dialogue box that asks you if you want to continue, so hit yes.  Then a smaller box opens that has print options specific to my printer.  There you will see a box to select two-sided printing.  Make sure it is not checked.  At least that worked for me.