How to Print Both Sides of the Paper with HP Printers?

Looking at ways how to print both sides of the paper with an HP Printer, then this article is for you. Read below to know the steps for printing on both sides of the printer on windows and mac.

Before starting with printing on both sides let’s find out that your printer has these capabilities. For that follow the below steps.

From your system, open the document that you want to print
Tap on the file tab
Choose Print option
Then in the settings, check the options
If it has a print on both sides option then your printer has a duplex printing feature available

How to print both sides of the paper with an HP Printer

First, you have to prepare your duplex printing setup. For that, load enough paper in your printer based on the previously initialized setup. Make sure that you are having enough ink in your printer cartridges.

Steps to print both sides of the paper with an HP Printer on windows

Open the document that needs to be printed
Then tap on the Print option on the File menu
Now choose printer properties and select Preferences
In the following Properties window choose the page layout
Choose booklet or tablet layout
For HP printer with Layout menu
- Click on the Finishing tab, and choose to bind. Then in the flip option, you can select Print on Both Sides Manually or Print on Both Sides option.
For HP printer with printing shortcut menu
Now click ok
Then click Print
If it doesn’t print automatically remove and load the paper
Tap on the continue to start printing on the other side
Once completed remove the check mark on Print on Both Sides for the normal printing process

Steps to print both sides of the paper with an HP Printer on mac devices

For printing, both sides on the Mac OS, follow the same general procedure up to paper loading in windows. Then

Tap on the File Print and choose the Show Details option
- If the two-sided settings are available
  - You can choose Layout. For the Booklet model, select Long-Edge binding and for Short-Edge binding perfect for Tablet layout, select the two-Sided option. Finally, Click Print.

For the printing options menu without a name
- You can choose Paper Handing. Then from the Pages to Print menu, select the Odd Only option.
Now select the page order menu from the Reverse and Automatic option
Finally, click Print

Printing on both sides of paper called duplex printing can make most of your time-consumable job easy. We hope this article has assisted you with the duplex printing with HP printer on windows and mac. For more information and related queries with HP printing, please contact HP customer support executives for a personalized solution.

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