Dec 10, 2018 - Deleting double sided printing when printing voucher checks. QuickBooks calls the printer driver, which tells Apple's. 2-sided printing seems to be the default mode and I cannot find a way to permanently turn it off.
Best Answer: As I read the question above, you are asking two contradictory things. In answer to the title in Bold text, the answer is absolutely, Yes, you can turn it off! In fact, in answer to the second question, I actually had to turn the Double sided feature ON! Much to my annoyance, I wasted my first print run because it was printed single-sided by default. All you have to do when you get to the Print Menu is just make sure that the Double Sided tick box is on or off as appropriate. I have since set up a simple print template to create a selectable print option which I labelled as Double-Sided. So now I can select 'single' or 'double sided' from the print options dialogue to suit the size, type and format of document I'm printing at the time.
Answered by Anthony R from Luton. Dec 2, 2011.
I saw some replies for another MF series printer, but the instructions did not make sense to me. I have gone through EVERY possible option in the print dialog boxes. I think this is something set on the printer itself somehow. THe weird thing is that on my old computer with the same printer, I had an option in the Print dialog box for 'Finishing.' That allowed me to specify (and obviously I could save that setting in a preset).
But, with my new computer and new download of the drivers, etc., 'Finishing' is not on the drop down menu. I do see Basic (which someone mentioned in a post), but that doesn't deal with 2 sided printing.
Please help!! Thanks, Cameron.
So that the Community can help you better, we will need to know exactly which operating system is running on your computer, and which applications you're trying to print from. That, and any other details you'd like to give will help the Community better understand your issue! If this is a time-sensitive matter, our US-based technical support team is standing by, ready to help 24/7 via Email at or by phone at 1-800-OK-CANON (1-800-652-2666) weekdays between 10 AM and 10 PM ET (7 AM to 7 PM PT). Thanks and have a great day! Please follow the steps below to turn off 2-Sided printing and also save the 1-Sided option as a Preset::.
Click File, and then click Print. Click the drop-down arrow for Copies & Pages, and then select Layout. Click the drop-down arrow for 2-sided, and then select Off. Click the 'Presets' drop-down arrow and click 'Save current setting as preset.'
. Name it '1-sided' or 'Single-Sided' and verify that the imageCLASS MF8300 SeriesĀ is the only printer selected. Print the document. Now when you print other documents, select the '1-Sided' option in Presets to print single-sided documents. I hope this information is helpful to you. Should you need further assistance, please contact us at 1-800-OK-CANON (1-800-652-2666. Have a great day.
I'm having the same issue. The default setting being a 2 sided print is stupid.
There seems to be no way to change this to make single sided the default. I love canon products and have a a lot of them that we use in my office. I agree with you on just dumping the printer and going with another since from what I have read on your post here from canon they don't have a fix to the problem.
When they wrote the driver for these they made two sided the default without a work around. Pretty much have had my fill.
I have wasted countless hours trying to fix this issue and it has cost me more money in screwed up prints then the printer is worth. I have an MF 6160. Love it overall, but now have the same double sided printing of documetns, and cannot turn it off.
Have wasted a lot of paper, have to send documetns to my two other simple canon printers to get single sided. Been on phone twice for an hour with Canon, none of the changes work. They don't seem to have a fix. The presets get overrun by the printer as it defaults to double sided. They said it was a Microsoft problem. I have a Mac using OSX Yosemite v 10.10.5, use Chrome browser.
I updated the Windows for Mac to the 2016 version, from the 2011 version. Same.bleep. double sided printing with both version.
Canon, you have great printiers. Please get the fix together. Otherwis will have to trash this printer.