How to print double sided

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Double-sided printing is available at OCF.

Printing double-sided on Unix machines

To print double-sided on Unix, send your print job to the printer double (pass -P double to lpr, or -d double to lp). Providing this option may be available in the application that you are using, or you can print it as file into a PostScript file, and send it to the printer like
lpr -P double print_file.ps
(replace print_file.ps with the actual name of the file).

Printing double-sided on Windows machines

Currently, to print double-sided on Windows,

  • go to Advanced tab and then Layout (this may differ depending on different clients),
  • choose the Duplex option.

or

  • Bring up the Print dialog (File->Print)
  • Click on Properties or Preferences
  • Click on the Finishing tab in the new window
  • Check the Print on Both Sides box
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