Keeping Printer setup @ two sided printing

I know that I can set a page to print both sides each time I print but have been unable to find a way to set it up to stay on two sided printing. Am I missing something? Can it be done?

Steve -- for some reason this isn't working for me. My iMac's printer driver settings themselves revert to having the two-sided printing option unchecked, as if I didn't want that option available. So even the "Last Used Settings" gambit doesn't work.
What's weird are these two things: (1) it used to work flawlessly --- never needed to reset that, it always was available, and usually, of course, I wanted it. the exceptions were in printing photo paper, so I'd just set the print options for the software -- Aperture or whatever-- to single-sided, but always in Word or Preview I still had the two-sided option there and could select it. Now, I need first to go to the System Preferences spot and set the printer driver to using the two sided setting. (2) my laptop (MacBook Pro of same vintage as the iMac) doesn't have the problem.
Any ideas?

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selector in the [Layout] panel is greyed out.
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