Macbook won't print grayscale or doubled-sided to HP printer

I'm printing to an HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus, and in the dialogue box I mark long-edge binding under two-sided printing, and grayscale as an "other profile" of colorsync. But my documents only print in color and single-sided. I also notice that after I mark one of those options and then the other, when I go back to the first before printing, it has been reset to default. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Earlier, it wasn't finding the printer at all when I tried to print (I had installed the printer and it said it was printing to it, but in the printer box it just said "finding printer..." forever), so I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer. Then I was able to print and just had this new problem. You think reinstalling again would help?

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I hope you have Installed and configured the same Printer on the Server or Workstation, where you are currently working on.
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and Click on Printing Preferences and Click on Finishing Tab.
Then you can able to see..the Document options, there you need to Deselect the Option of "Printing on Both Sides" .
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According to the following article it is possible to configure a PDF to print single or double sided in the Adobe LiveCycle Designer:
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I found this on one of the forums, similar to your suggestion:
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Using an HP Photosmart Plus B210a - how do I print PDF files double-sided. I can print Word documents etc. this way but do not seem to have the option when opening a PDF file.
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Hi,
You might experiment with a page or two first.
1.Choose File > Print.
2.From the Subset pop-up menu in the Print Range area, select Even Pages Only.
3.Click OK or Print.
4.If the total number of pages is odd, add a blank sheet so the final odd page has a sheet to print on.
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7.Select the Reverse Pages option. In this scenario, the Reverse pages option ensures that the page sequence is correct.
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I've been an aperture user since 1.0 and was always impressed with the potential of the book tool to create easily albums of photos. The great thing about it of course is that you can fiddle with the RAW images directly in the layout without having to export as tiff's or jpeg's as you probably would need to with other layout programs.
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My local bookbinder does an excellent job of binding the pages into a great looking album which is a thousand times better looking than the Apple book. The trimmed edges go into the spine of the book if you do it this way round, so any slight irregularities don't matter.
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Acrobat print driver for double-sided option?

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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.
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