Double sided printing

Hi everyone,
I've been reading posts by others regarding problems with double sided printing on mac. Since I changed to a mac, I havent been able to print double sided from my epson sx425w printer. This can be quite annoying if you a lot of pages to print. The double sided print option is just disabled so I cant even select it and I dont have the option of "Duplexer" or "Duplex Printing" as suggested in other posts. Besides, I've not been able to use my scanner since upgrading to Mavericks-I know others have had similar problems too.
Anyone come across similar problems?
Thanks

The sx425w is not listed on:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669
which means you are totally dependent on the Epson drivers. There are sx420w drivers, which may work for it, or may not. Contact Epson for details.
The sx425w drivers for Print and Scan has not been updated since 2010:
http://esupport.epson-europe.com/FileDetails.aspx?lng=en-IE&data=FCFfEfoyEiHIEHY ej3fxPyCU002F5lk7kA7sM98zHIPBYkwU003D&id=327010
(print)
http://esupport.epson-europe.com/FileDetails.aspx?lng=en-IE&data=FCFfEfoyEiHIEHY ej3fxPyCU002F5lk7kA7sM98zHIPBYkwU003D&id=326327
(scan)
And as such may still have elements to try to maintain compatibility with applications requiring old PowerPC code, which won't work with Mac OS X 10.7 or later.
The good news is that they mention the sx420w driver. So that suggests after applying it, and the update from Apple:
Epson Printer Drivers v2.17 for OS X
It may work. Repairing permissions with Disk Utility may help after all is said and done. Otherwise at least for scanning you may be forced to use open source drivers on my FAQs*:
http://www.macmaps.com/printersx.html
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#SCANNER
Alternatively for duplex printing, you could print just even pages at one time, and then rotate the pages 180 degrees and flip them upside down and print odd pages to achieve duplex printing. Test first with only a couple pages in the tray until you get the sequence right.
* Links to my macmaps pages may give me compensation.

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