Duplex printing no longer working

I occasionally use duplex printing, but when I tried recently it no longer worked. I am using 10.5.8 on a MBP. Used to work just fine, even say 3 months ago, but not now. I tried with VMWare Fusion running XP and selected the same printer and duplex. Using the same document this prints duplex OK!
This behaviour seems to now be true for me with all printers. The first was a HP 2420dn, but the same result also with Xerox 7750. Must be a system problem, but what? The only apple updates I can think I've done recently are Safari and iTunes, and of course security and java updates. Very strange.

Well I seem to have found the answer, but I don't quite understand why it works. It seems I was not using the standard preset in the printer dialogue. If I select "standard" then I again get back duplex printing when I select it. However when you compare the printer summary settings for the two cases "standard" and the previous one I was using, there seems to be absolutely no difference.
Odd really.
Well, life goes on.

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