Does anyone own / use an HP Photosmart c5180 printer. I've tried in vain to find out if this printer or others in its class, will allow printing two sided (NOT true duplex printing). Where it will print all the odd pages, then allow to take the stack and turn around in the in tray, and print even pages. Many older HP models called this "book mode" under printing preferences. The manual doesn't mention it. Spec sheet says doesn't support "duplex Printing", but I'm not sure that's referring to two sided, or fully automatic duplex printing.

If using MS Word there should be an option with ANY printer to print ODD pages or EVEN pages. When working in the Windows environment I believe the Print Spooler is a Windows program. At any rate I still believe this is a function of the program you are printing from.

Yes, word processor apps or Adobe, etc., have odd/even printing. Problem comes mostly from printing out of a browser. Say, a KB article from M$.

I stil don't think this is a printer issue. Windows does the print spooling. One solution would be to copy and paste into Word and then perporm two sided printing.

It is most definitely a printer driver problem. The current printer (which I'm about to replace) had 2-sided print capability under Win 98. But, no new drivers were written by HP for my current printer (and many others) for XP. So, some of the print features went away. I'm just trying to determine if this printer will print two sided (odd pages first) w/o having to copy web pages into some other program. What a hassle!

As Othehill has said "..this is a function of the program you are printing from." as far as the ability to print odd pages and then even pages is concerned. E.g. you can't do that in Notepad, or Wordpad. If the printer isn't capable of mechanical duplex printing, there will be no settings in the driver software for that. You don't necessarily have to copy and paste what you're viewing to another program in order to be able to print odd and then even pages. If you have a program such as Word or Adobe Acrobat that has the abilty to print odd and then even pages, you can change which files with which file extensions are opened by which programs by default, either by settings in the program itself, or by changing whatever program opens a particular file type individually - in Control Panel - Folder Options - File Types. When you install "drivers" supplied by HP for HP printers, and not "drivers" that may already be built into Windows, you are often if not always installing application programs as well. If a program is incuded in that, that has the ability to print odd and then even pages, then you have the ability to print that way even if you don't have that choice in other programs otherwise. It sounds like you had such a program included in the "drivers" for your other printer. If the "drivers" supplied by HP don't have an included program like that for the Photosmart c5180, you must use a another program that has the ability to print odd and then even pages.

I do appreciate the comments / suggestions. They are all valid. But, missing the point. It is well documented that many people who owned & used HP printers under say, Win 98 / ME, etc., had certain printing features. When they moved to XP and used the ONLY drivers available, SOME features went away. Two sided printing (not truly duplex, per se) was one. Under Printer>Properties, the "double sided" feature is no longer present. No other changes were made in applications used to print the documents. All I can say, Program XYZ had 2 sided printing option w/ the old drivers. Program XYZ (same version) did NOT have 2 sided printing option w/ the new (and only) drivers available for XP. This seems to be a function only of XP and/or the HP drivers for XP, not a word processing program. When you go to Start>Printers&Faxes, and right click>Properties for a printer, it has nothing to do w/ any application that you might later be printing from. That is, you are looking at Windows, or the HP configuration screen, not an application's.