No option to print double sided

This happened to me, with my Brother colour laser printer. Essentially prior option for double sided printing vanished. Trying to update the driver showed driver already up to date, and fault finding found nothing wrong.

https://www.howtogeek.com/761173/how-to-print-double-sided-on-windows-11/ is totally useless, because the option no longer exist.

Eventually what fixed it, was I deleted the printer under Devices and Printers in Control Panel, headed to the Brother website and downloaded their Windows 11 software associated with the printer, and used the new downloaded software to "reinstall" the printer as if it was new.

From another thread I found this answer that worked:

SquishyEagle168

Replied on August 17, 2020

**UPDATED 9/19/20**

Here's what worked for me:

(I edited my printer's properties thru Windows & then Edge (and other software apps changed their print dialog to reflect those changes)

1.  Start | Settings | Devices | Printers

2.  Select your printer | Manage

3.  Select "printer properties", and the Printer Properties dialog box will pop up.

4a.  Under "General" tab, you'll probably see that it says "double sided:  no", and that means any software that uses

       your printer will think you don't have double-sided printing capabilities.  So, you need to do #4b to fix this. 

4b.  In the "Device Settings" tab, under "Installable Options", make sure you indicate that "duplex" printing is installed
       Once you click OK button for this dialog box, the setting will be saved and all other software apps using your

       printer will now know you have dbl-sided printing available.

4c.  Not necessary, BUT if you want to force a certain type of double-sided printing (like "flip on long edge"), you can

       set that in the Printer Properties dialog box.  In the "General" tab, near the bottom, select "Preferences", then

       select "Layout" tab.  Chose desired option from the "Print on both sides" drop-down box, and select OK & OK again

       to save settings.

After you update these settings in the Pribter Properties dialog box, when you open the document with Edge (or any other sw app) & select print, you'll see the option to print on both sides.

Cheers!

Windows 11 newly installed. Kyocera M2640idw printer. I can no longer print double sided. The article mentioned above simply got me to a page with only one Layout option: Portrait or Landscape.

Please inform us how to fix this. It appears to be a common problem.

Thanks

go to settings

devices & printers

Uninstall your printer

reboot

go back into settings and re- ADD your printer

seems to be happening to alot of systems, different printers

Hi

I am still having trouble with this. When I get to the printer preferences this is the only option I have. My printer model is a Canon TS5100. It worked fine before updating to Windows 11.