Force Brother to print NON-duplex

Dorico
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How you connect your printer? USB? Wi-Fi?

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[quote=“Eddo”]
I have got the same problem with a Canon i-sensys MF635x – Dorico ignores the duplex (un-) setting. Native printer settings are set to print one-sided, too.
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How you connect your printer? USB? Wi-Fi?

Yes, not nearly enough information. How are you connecting? What OS? What drivers are you using? You appear to have a few choices:

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/products/fax__multifunctionals/laser/laserbase_mf_series/i-sensys_mf635cx.html?type=drivers&language=EN&os=macos%2010.15%20(catalina)

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This is the solution. It’s been years with sibelius and now dorico, with the same problem now solved. No more pdf work around.

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I have a Brother MFC-2750 (very similar to yours) with the latest driver updates and I’m running it with the latest version of Windows. I’m not having the problem you’re describing. I flip between duplex and “one side only” pretty often. I run mine via wifi. If you haven’t already, try updating the printer to the latest driver (April 2020) and install the latest firmware (August 2020). If you’re still having problems, try unplugging the printer for 30 seconds and plug it back in. This solves a wifi problem I have every once in a while. I hope you’re able to fix it. Good luck.

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Since Sibelius days, I have printed everything via FinePrint ( Windows only), which can switch between single and double sided printing with one click. It installs as a virtual printer and is also useful for combining and reordering the output of different programs.

I have an HP Laserjet 4300, however. It may not work for Brother printers, though I dont see why not and it is worth giving the free trial a run.

David

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Hi David and Diamondknive,
Thanks for your answers. I need to remind though, that the problems discussed in this thread only happen on a Mac, so windows-only solutions probably won‘t help as much as we hope…

For me it worked to download&install the CUPS-driver from brother’s web site and add the printer again using this driver. It seemed to be a problem with the mac-internal driver (which seems to work but has this problem that Dorico does not recognize the duplex setting).

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Sorry. The thread is so long that I forgot that salient fact.

Best,

David

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I have found workaround (for smaller pieces) : PRINT >>> Job Type > Print Range …Type page numbers separated by coma (1,2,3,4,5) It will print pages on one side only. (Printing takes slightly more time …but it’s working:)

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I have the same problem with my Brother HL-L2370DN - doesn’t obey the Dorico instruction to print on one side only.

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This video has been posted here before, in this thread and might be worth a look:

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The relevant info is:

In the Terminal, type:

cupsctl WebInterface=yes

… to enable the web front-end to the printing system.

http://localhost:631

is the URL for the browser. (NB: this is a local address on your own computer, not an ‘internet’ address.)

Click on the “Printers” tab at the top; then on the 2nd drop down menu, choose “Set Default Options”. Find the section with the duplex options and set it to single-sided, then click on the “Set Default Options” button.

It’s rather bizarre that this is still the only way of configuring the defaults for a print queue in macOS.

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Another weird quirk I’ve discovered with Brother printers from Mac regarding this issue.
When Dorico is set to single sided, and I start the print process from Docirco, rather than pdf, when I set the Dorico print options to single-sided, it prints duplex. If I go back to the Dorico print command on the same document, it says it’s set to Duplex, even though it wasn’t. But if I now RE-set it to single sided, it obeys me!

Weird.

Benwiggy: I appreciate your finding a solution, but the fact is I’m not going to use Teminal. I would have no idea what I was doing nor how to do what you suggest.

In other words, I’m simply going to have to learn to live with it: print first page alone, which will obviously be single-sided (!), then go back, turn duplex off, select pages 2-whatever, then print single-sided. It works! I don’t understand why it works, but who cares

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It’s not very difficult, I had to figure it out myself when I bought a new Brother printer. The following worked for my Mac Studio, following Ben’s instructions:

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On your pc keyboard cmd+space and type “terminal” and open Terminal.app
In terminal app type “cupsctl WebInterface=yes”
(no quotation marks)

Then open your web browser and type “http://localhost:631” and hit enter.

Click on the tab “Printers”, choose your printer, dropdown menu “Administration”.

Choose “set Default Options”. Under “General” 2-Sided Printing choose “Off (1-sided)”.

Good luck.

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Surely you need to Launch the Terminal (which you can do using Command Space, and typing “Terminal”), then paste the text there.

I’m not convinced that typing a terminal command directly into a Spotlight search would actually run it. (Executing data input tends to be a security ‘no-no’.)

But I’d agree that it’s still very straightforward, and nothing to be afraid of.

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My bad, yes of course terminal, was already typed by me…