#694 Two sided printing for HP Deskjet 970Cxi

[Dr Plant]

I have an Intel Mac and just upgraded to Snow Leopard OS. Both my
printers (HP Deskjet 970 Cxi and HP Photosmart D3760) did not work but I
installed the most recent Gutenprint for Mac OS and they work again (I can
even access the supply amounts for the Deskjet that I could not before
under the Mac driver). Only problem is the HP Deskjet 970 Cxi has a
twosided printing add-on that is not supported in the Gutenprint driver (it
supports only the generic HP Deskjet 970C). Is it possible Two-sided
printing for an HP Deskjet 970 Cxi can be added in a future release? FYI
- the two-sided option was not indicated in the printer/fax dialog options
for the respective driver. Thanks! Mark C

[Robert Krawitz]

This is a feature request (for duplex support for the 970Cxi) that has nothing to do with OS X. Reassigning. Unfortunately, we currently have no one to work on the PCL driver.

[mbroughtn]

In the meantime you can try the HPIJS drivers from OpenPrinting <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/hpijs>. I believe they support duplex printing.

You can keep the Gutenprint drivers installed along with the HPIJS drivers and choose the best driver for a particular print job.