MF4150 duplex printing when shared

I love my MF4150 printer, especially the duplex printing. But when sharing to other Macs in the house, the "finishing" option is never available, thus no opportunity to print in duplex mode except from the directly connected computer. Has anyone overcome this limitation?
Thanks!
Chuck

Hello Chuck,
As BDAqua suggested, you will have to install the same version of UFR2 driver on both machines. This is more so when the Mac's are running different versions of Mac OS X. Running the UFR2 installer on the 'client' will copy the PDE's (Print Dialog Extensions) onto the this Mac, which is the plugins that make the Finishing and Special Features options appear in the print menu.
PaHu

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