2-Sided Booklet printing: any trick to tweak a Ricoh printer?

We've just recently switched to the newest iMacs, and upgraded to Adobe CS4 at the same time.
We have two Ricoh printers we use: an Afico MP7000 and an Afico MP C2500.
We can print double-sided A3 booklets on the 7000.
We cannot on the 2500.
We're using AppleTalk as the route to print on both printers.
Last year, prior to upgrading both our Mac hardware and Adobe software, we could print double-sided A3 booklets on both printers.
Our IT guys have provided us with the latest printer driver for the 2500. It's the PS one.
Everything we've tried thus far has proven fruitless. We have adjusted the printer settings to print two sided with short-edge binding (identical setups for both the 7000 and 2500).
Why can we print double-sided on the 7000 and not the 2500?
Is there a trick setting in InDesign to make this work?
Is there an alternate driver we might try on the 2500? We've tried using a generic post-script driver, and no joy.

I'm PC based, and don't have your printers, but as a temporary workaround you might want to try printing to PDF, then printing the PDF two-sided.
Peter

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