Two sided printing manually on 2540

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Hello! I'm writing from Italy (there isn't an official forum in my language) I'm having the same problem but I can't solve because the links you osted before now works only for windows 7 or 8 but I still have XP... what can I do?
Thank you in advance!

Hi @Enrica76,
Thank you for your response.
When you insert the printed sheets into the printer, the steps in the How-To document have you restarting the print job from the computer. Just to make sure I’m understanding your post correctly, are you indicating that you restart the job from the computer and then nothing happens?
Thank you.
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