Acrobat still can't duplex print?

This has been a problem for a long time, judging by the number and dates of the posts. Did Adobe ever contrive a patch for Acrobat 8 that enables it to actually print two-sided (duplex)? I know I've never been able to do it on a Brother 5250 DN, which is designed for duplex printing. Frankly, it seems pretty dumb that an app designed for packaging and sending large text-and-graphics files is incapable of printing on a duplex printer. And don't tell me "lose the attitude, dude"-judging by the number of posts, it's a statement of fact.

All this is totally different Screen (I use a HP DJ 990cse) This sort amplifies Larry's Answer:
Every Printer is setup naturally different.

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I called Epson support and they could not help me.
However they suggested that I try using Adobe Reader.
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However, there is something peculiar in your particular situation. Normally, with Acrobat & Reader 10.1.2, if the printer supports duplex as determined by the printer's PPD file (for PostScript devices) or from the driver otherwise, you would see a duplex control in the print dialog itself. The fact that your printer supports duplex (correct?) and that you aren't seeing the duplex control in the print dialog is a problem we aren't currently aware of. You are seeing the forcing of duplex without the ability to control it from the print dialog? Correct? I'll send the report of this to the appropriate group within Acrobat engineering.
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Thank you for your input. Can you confirm that these strange printing issues would also cause my PDF files to print in color and 1-sided even when the default in Control panel for my printer is 2-sided and B&W?
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Although I am working on behalf of HP, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
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You mean there is an entry in the dock that doesn't work but it works OK from LaunchPad or Applications? Sounds as if you have an old or out of date thing in the dock. Just remove it and put the working Acrobat back. The dock is ENTIRELY under your control; Acrobat doesn't put itself there or remove itself.

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I'm in an office with four iMacs running OS X Leopard v10.5.8.
We're all using CS4 Acrobat 9 Pro v9.4.6 (which Check For Updates tells me is up-to-date).
We're printing to a networked Xerox Phaser 6180DN.
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I do have a clue on using these applications.
That's why problems like this are so frustrating. It should simply work ... and it doesn't!
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Message was edited by: jondaman21. Small clarification to what I've tried.

I agree with your statement; even for a particular document, if I choose to "Print on both sides" and then print again immediately after, "Print on both sides" will be deselected.
However, I'm not sure what you're implying by you're statement. I'm asking precisely why this setting isn't sticky. Acrobat uses a non-standard printer dialog; in the usual dialog I can easily set a defualt duplex setting. I almost always want to print duplex. Why can't I do this by default in Acrobat?

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Still can't print

Hi Folks,
I'm having problems printing and creating in Acrobat, per the conversation from another thread that I've pasted below. I pasted it here because that thread seems to have given out. The fellow with whom I was corresponding gave me some pretty good ideas and I tried them. But they didn't pan out.
Can anyone save me on this?
Thanks,
CS
Hi There,
I was having some problems with Acrobat and with other CS3 components, too, so I just ran the CS5 Cleaner Tool and reinstalled CS3. As far as I can tell, the only problems I have now are with Acrobat 8 Professional.
- It appears that I'm able to Save As any file as a PDF
- I can't Create a PDF, either by opening of dragging a file into Acrobat Professional. The error message says either the "file type is not supported" or "the file is corrupt". Word is supported and my files are new. Then I get another box that says "Missing PDFMaker files. Do you want to run the installer in repair mode?" If I run that, nothing happens.
- I can't print a PDF. The error here is "Error - Printing" or "Error - Sent to Printer" in the print dialogue box.
Any ideas? I'm a bit stuck.
Thanks,
CS
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Bill@VT6,961 posts since
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1. Jan 1, 2011 6:54 AM in response to: Crellin Sound
Re: Create - No Go
You gave no indication of the OS or the WORD versions. AA8 has problems with Win 7 and also OFFICE 2010. If you have not updated, you might update AA8 and something like AA8.3.4 or so (did not check lately).
As far as printing, the most basic process of all the PDF creation processes with AA8 are to print to the Adobe PDF printer with print to file selected. Then open that file in Distiller to complete the process. If that works, you can then at least create PDFs. The next step is to check for AcroTray running in the background (ctrl-alt-del > tasks and you should see AcroTray running in the background. You might try killing it and restarting (from the Distiller folder).
PDF Maker requires WORD to be activated for the PDF Maker macro. If you have the PDF maker menu in WORD, then opening in Acrobat should also work. The latter simply uses the macro in WORD.
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Crellin Sound64 posts since
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2. Jan 3, 2011 5:22 AM in response to: Bill@VT
Re: Create - No Go
Hi Bill,
I'm running Windows Vista and, I believe, Office 2007. Sorry about the omission.
I'll try your print-to-file trick and see what happens.
I'll also try what you suggest about the Acrotray, too.
There's no PDF Maker menu in Word, though I can select PDF as a printer. How do I activate Word in this case?
Thanks,
CS
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Crellin Sound64 posts since
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3. Jan 3, 2011 9:56 PM in response to: Crellin Sound
Re: Create - No Go
Hi Bill,
I can create PDFs by Saving As to PDF and then printing, but I still can't Print of Create. It's a bit of a pain when working with AI.
I tried your idea of printing to file and then opening Distiller to complete the process. I couldn't print to file without an error, so I couldn't even get to Distiller. Or maybe I don't quite understand what you're saying here.
I killed the AcroTray, got it going again, and that didn't make any difference.
There's no PDF Maker Menu in Word or Excel.
Any ideas? I'm stuck.
Thanks,
CS

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