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How to Disable Two-Sided Printing On Mac

By: Waseem Patwegar

If the print jobs from your MacBook are being printed on both sides of the paper, you can find below the steps to Disable Two-Sided Printing on Mac.

Disable Two-Sided Printing on Mac

The default behaviour in macOS is to automatically enable two-sided printing, whenever a printer that supports Duplex Mode is connected to Mac.

However, most documents like school/college essays, homework submissions, resumes, air tickets and many other documents are mostly required to be printed on a single side.

Hence, you are better off disabling two-sided printing on your Mac and prevent the possibility of paper, toner and time being wasted, if your documents end up being printed on both sides of the paper.

Step# 1. Enable CUPS Browser Interface

The print setup in macOS is based on CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), an open source modular printing system developed by Apple for Unix based systems.

However, the CUPS interface is disabled by default in macOS and needs to enabled, in order to disable two-sided printing on a Mac.

1. Open the Finder on your Mac > click on Applications in the left-pane and open Utilities Folder in the right-pane.

Open Utilities Folder on Mac

2. In the Utilities Folder, click on the Terminal.app.

Open Terminal App on Mac

3. In the Terminal Window, type sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes and press the enter key on the keyboard of your Mac

Command to Enable CUPS Interface on Mac

Once this command is successfully executed, you will be able to access CUPS using any browser on your Mac.

Step #2. Disable Two-sided Printing on Mac

After enabling CUPS interface, you can follow the steps below to access CUPS Settings page and disable two-sided printing on your Mac.

1. Open the Safari browser on your Mac.

2. Go to http://localhost:631 – This will take you to CUPS Settings Page.

Note: Although you are accessing the CUPS Settings page via the browser, the page itself is not online. Whatever you are seeing is located right on your computer.

3. When prompted, enter the Username and Password that you normally use to login to your Mac.

4. On the CUPS settings page, click on the Printers tab in the top menu bar (See image below).

Printers Tab in CUPS Browser Interface on Mac

5. You will see a list of printers. Click on the Printer for which you want to change the print settings.

Printers Listed on CUPS Interface on Mac

6. On the printer’s configuration page. Click on the down-arrow next to “Administration” and then click on Set Default Options in the drop-down menu (See image below).

Set Default Options Tab on CUPS Browser Interface For Mac

7. On the next screen, first click on Administration Tab, next click on Printing and then set Duplex Printing Mode to OFF position (See image below).

Set Duplex Mode For Mac Printer to OFF Using CUPS

For some printers the Duplex Printing Mode option is located under General Settings (See image below)

Set Duplex Printing Mode to 1-sided on Mac using CUPS

8. Next, Click on the Set Default Options button to save your changes.

Now, close the browser and try to print any document. You will see that two-sided printing option is no longer enabled by default on your Mac.

From now, you will no longer go through those frustrating episodes of having to discard two-sided print jobs and printing them again. Also, you will still be able to print on two sides, in case you want to.

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