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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by matthew_stone on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:33AM (#37455644)
It has been possible to print double-sided since at least Lion/2008…
Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by estebarb on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:36AM (#37455660)
If you have a printer that support it. Otherwise you have to do it by hand https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/how-to-print-dou...
Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by yawaramin on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:01PM (#37457723)
If the hardware itself doesn't support it, how would the software?
Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by jt2190 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:46PM (#37458176)
The issue is that the printer manufacturer needs to provide a printer driver for MacOS that gives MacOS access to that printer capability. (One could argue that Apple should write the driver, and they might for very popular devices.)
Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by estebarb on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:08AM (#37463483)
Windows approach: Print even pages first, ask the user to move the printed pages back to the printer and then print the odd pages later. The result is ready to be read.

In Mac you need to print first one side, move the pages manually, print the other side. But you have to remember to add an extra page if the page count is odd, have caution if an app tries to be intelligent and sort the pages in a different way...

In Windows all those calculations are done by the system. It is easy! Just print and follow instructions. In Mac is painful.