Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Duplex Printing with the Lexmark T640 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Mac OS X 10.4 includes a driver for the Lexmark T640. However, even with the duplex option installed (System Preferences > Print & Fax > [printer name] > Printer Setup > Installable Options) and either "long-edged binding" or "short-edged binding" selected (Print > Layout), pages come out one-sided! The "Generic PostScript Printer" driver doesn't appear to support duplex printing either.

As a work around, you can install Gutenprint and Gimp-Print for Mac OS X and use, for example, the "Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.3" driver.

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