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Single (One-Sided) Printing from a Canon Print Center

The Canon Print Centers ("Copiers") save trees by printing two-sided. But sometimes you need to print one-sided. Here's how.

With your print dialog box open:


A print dialog box with options for printer, presets, copies, pages, paper size, orientation, layout, and more.

If your print dialog is small, it is collapsed. To expand it, click the up and down arrows past the printer selected.
Now navigate to the middle of the screen and change the Layout options to the Finishing options.

A print dialog box with options for printer, paper size, orientation, scale, and layout.
On the finishing screen, you should see it set to two-sided printing:

A screenshot of a print dialog box with options for printer, paper size, orientation, and finishing.
And toggle it to 1-sided printing:
A print dialog box with options for printer, presets, copies, pages, paper size, orientation, scale, print style, binding location, and finishing details.
Now unless you want to do this every time you need to print one-sided, do not press that blue print button in the lower right corner. Let's save this as a preset, so we can quickly toggle to it without going through all this rigmarole.

At the top, under presets (second setting from the top), click the up and down arrow

A print dialog box with options for printer, presets, copies, pages, paper size, orientation, scale, print style, binding location, and finishing details.
Click on Save Current Settings as Preset... (the third option down):

A screenshot of a print dialog box on a Mac computer, showing options for printer settings, paper size, orientation, and finishing.
You can call it what you like, but make it something that will remind you that this preset prints only on one side of the paper. I chose "Print Single-Sided"

A print dialog box with options for printer, presets, copies, pages, paper size, orientation, scale, print style, binding location, and finishing details.
Now press that print button.

You No Longer Have To Do This Every Time You Print

From now on, when you print, simply toggle the Presets: (second field from the top, directly below the Printer selected) to "Print Single Sided" and then press the print button.