After 10.5.5, no more duplex printing (generic postscript)

I have a printer for which there is no Mac native driver, so I have to use the "Generic Postscript" driver. Up to 10.5.4, anything printed from the Mac would honor the front panel setting with regard to duplexing. As far as I can guess, since 10.5.5, the generic driver is now sending an explicit "single sided" command to the printer.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might fix this?

Hi,
you can try to exchange your "pstops" file by the one from 10.5.4 as described in:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1715794&tstart=0#8157481
At least this fixed a similar problem in my case which appeared with 10.5.5 (or the latest HP printer driver update - I am not sure, because I installed both updates at quite the same time).
Best regards,
Steffen

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