Manual Duplex printing for Mac (and/or Linux)
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My printers don't support automatic duplex printing. I'm looking for a solution for my Mac and Linux computers that I've seen with most Windows printer drivers:
- Check "Manual duplex" in the printer screen
- Printer starts printing one side
- A dialog appears, asking me to flip the pages
- Printer prints the other side.
One thing I can do, is print odd pages
, then reopen the dialog and print even pages
, but this is very inconvenient, especially when I only want to print a certain page range of the document as the Mac dialog forgets my previous page range every time. It gets even more inconvenient, when printing 2-up double sided, or when changing additional settings for this one printout.
Is there maybe some tool, that can do this? Or maybe a "virtual printer driver" that can sit somewhere between the dialog and the actual printer driver, which manages these steps? (The Windows tool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinePrint can do something like that, but I don't need all of its features - and I need it on Mac/Linux)
Thanks, Chris
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