When printing duplex, the reverse of the first page comes out blank.

[Ansel1]

My HP LaserJet Professional P1606dn when printing duplex prints blank the reverse of the first page and prints it on the front of the second page. This makes a documento of more that one page useless.

I have not change any printer software.

The printer is connected via USB to the computer.

[RnRMusicMan]

Hi @Ansel1,

Welcome to the HP Forums! 

I understand that the reverse of the first page is coming out blank with your HP Laserjet Pro P1606dn printer. I am happy to look into this issue for you! 

Please double-check that you are following the instructions in this guide, Printing on Both Sides of the Paper (Windows) (Duplexing).

As well as the steps in this guide, Troubleshooting Print Quality. 

Also, please try our HP Print and Scan Doctor, in case there could be a driver conflict. 

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Hope this post helps, and have a nice day! 🙂

[Jim_Asman]

It seems as though the job is printing simplex. Can you verify that the paper IS going through the duplexor?

[Ansel1]

The second page and subsequent pages are printed duplex, only the first is printed on one side only

[chimten]

Hi Ansel1,

What program are you using to send your print job?  What is the paper size for the print job?

To confirm, did you install the print driver that came with the software?

Thanks.

[Jay_U]

Hello Ansel1,

If I understand the situation correctly, you are printing duplex on a lot of pages. However, the first page (and only the first page) prints only on one side?

This situation sounds like a feature found in a driver.  The feature prints the first page of a print job single sided (the idea being that a person would print the first page on letterhead) and the rest duplex. Since this sounds pretty close to what is being described, I would check the driver to see if this feature is turned on. You may be use a 'preset' driver configuration setting that causes this behavior.

This is an example of the driver tabs to look for (the image is from a different printer but the Paper/Quality tab and Special Pages Settings should be similar). The Presets that I referred to would be found on the Printing Shortcuts tab.

Hope this provides some insight,

Regards,

#HPExpertDay

[Ansel1]

Thank you. I will try it. The problem is that a few months back it would print ok. Then I do not know what happened and the problem started.

[Ansel1]

I normally use Word 2010. The paper size is "oficio" which is slightly smaller than legal. It is 22.1 x 33 cm. And yes I installed everything from the CD.