Brother Printer not printing in duplex from MacBook Pro

Good morning, all;
I'm hoping I can get some help on a printer issue. My lab runs a number of Macs, but also a pair of PCs. I recently got a new Brother duplex printer (HL-5370DW) and networked the computers to it. The printer is working fine, except when we try to print duplex from the MacBook Pros in the lab. It will behave like a duplex printer in that it prints one side, then feeds the paper back through to print on the reverse, but the reverse never prints and it ends up going to another page. I have verified that all Macs are using the correct OX X 10.7 driver.
Curiously, this doesn't occur when we print in duplex from the PCs. Even more curious, we have the same make and model of printer in one of our offices (with the same driver and networked similarly) and it will print in duplex just fine. Brother is claiming that this is a problem with our Macs and were rather unhelpful in trouble shooting. So any advice would be greatly appreciated!

i have a brother HL-5370DW as well and my duplexing ability disappeared over the past couple of weeks.  i finally googled the problem tonight, and was happy to find this thread explaining the issue (the link to the thread from byline above helped further). 
i went to brother's site, downloaded & installed the latest cups driver, and viola, problem solved (i did not have to restart the computer or printer, just installed the new driver and duplexing was good to go).
for the record, the brother site has this to say about the update history:
Version 4.1.0
Corrects the issue of being unable to do 2-sided (duplex) print. (Only for machines supporting 2-sided (duplex) print)
Version 4.0.0a
Compatible with Mac OS X 10.7.

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