HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-One printer: No duplexing, no dice

#1 Macworld

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 10:31 AM

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#2 drdreric

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 12:37 PM

Just bought two, actually. AirPrint works. I love 4 separate ink tanks at this price. I NEVER use duplex printing, so for me it's got speed, individual ink tanks, and AirPrint. 4 mice here. It's $120 at several major spots.

#3 DBSteve

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:25 AM

Actually the manual duplexing feature disappeared from HP's printers way back in Snow Leopard. I have an HP inkjet that has the auto duplexing feature that works great, but I also have a small HP LaserJet P1006 that I use whenever I don't need color. It also works great, and it had the manual duplexing that was there until I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I was hoping it would return in Lion, but no dice. HP claims this is Apple's fault, which might be partially true since HP does not directly supply printer drivers for the Mac anymore. All their drivers come in the way of Software Update. By the way, the manual duplexing feature is alive and well in the Windows 7 printer drivers, so It is obvious that someone consciously decided to drop it from the Mac drivers.

#4 Frank777

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 07:19 PM

The deficiencies in this printer seem entirely software-based. Perhaps HP will ship an updated driver in the future.

They'll have to update the driver for Mountain Lion anyway, right?