Duplex printing on Canon i860

I have a Canon i860 printer which I have had for a couple of years and have loved it. But since I upgraded a little over a year ago from a Lombard PB running OS 9.1.1 to a G4 iBook running OS 10.4 in its various incarnations I have not been able to print duplex copies. When I can get it to show up on the under the printer menu when I attempt to print the job just automatically stops and it will not print. I have tried loading new drivers but nothing seems to help. Any advice?

Hello James,
I am assuming from your post that you can print simplex (ie single sided) without the printer queue stopping. Is this correct?
Where do you select to do two-sided? Are you making the selection under Layout or is there another choice in the printer menu?
FYI - for the iP6000D I have currently connected to my MacBook there is the option 'Duplex Printing & Margin'. This is part of the Printing Dialog Extensions (PDEs) that get installed with the driver. The driver version that provides this option is v4.15. I know this version is available for the i865 (the i860 wasn't sold in Oz) and you can download it from the Canon Europe web site. Are you using this version and if yes, are you selecting Duplex Print from this extension?

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