Booklet printing on Tabloid paper

I am creating a booklet to print on tabloid paper. I will be giving this to someone else to take to printer. I'm having a problem because I can't see a way to set up the print to booklet feature, unless I am actually printing it right now on my printer (which does not support printing). Any ideas how to do this so person going to Kinkos does not need to mess with it when they get there?

It's not your resposibility to impose a document for mutliple up, booklet or any other scenerio for many reasons. You are making educated guesses as to how the job will print, but are not actually printing the job.
If you were creating more than a four page newsletter, would you consider creep/shingling? Are you certain they are running flat spreads as opposed to folded signatures? Are bleeds required?
On behalf of all the qualified small printers barely able to make ends meet, if your print provider, Kinko's, cannot print from a proper facing pages document, find one who can. IMO, you'll receive a better product from a company who cares about your project and will be happy to help.

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Booklet printing to tabloid

I hope I am posting this correctly. I thought I could get telephone assistance regardless of the cost. My reputation is hanging on this. I would pay any amount at this point.
For years I have printed the same tabloid size art catalog from inDesign (CS6 now) by using:
PRINT BOOKLET
PRINT SETTINGS -making sure my printer (Canon) is selected
PRINT - select SAVE AS POSTSCRIPT in the PDF dropdown
Print to desktop and open w/DISTILLER set to oversize print
I have been struggling for HOURS to get this to work. It only prints portions of each page on letter size, regardless of how many times I configure to print 17x11.
I am at the end of my rope with a deadline at the end of the day on something I have NEVER EVER HAD AN ISSUE WITH!!!!
I am on a Mac w/Yosemite 10.10.2
How can I get the help I need??????????????????????????????????????????? It isn't working and my head is pounding.
Pete

Well, I've now been on this for nearly 8 hours. Here's what I discovered:
I could not do a blessed thing to get this to print correctly using inDesign CS6 with Print Booklet and then DISTILLER to open the PS file (all outlined in my initial post).
What I ended up doing out of sheer desperation, I saved it as an earlier version (.idml), threw that new file, all the images and links to an external HD and found a colleague who had inDesign CS5. That party opened it all up, adjusted the links, and printed the booklet w/o a blink or hiccup.
Soooooo.... what on Earth is going on w/CS6 and the ability to print to .ps???????????????????? No matter what I did, it forced me to produce a letter-size, not a tabloid.
At least my rep isn't tarnished with the community that expected this annual piece! Perhaps in an hour my heart will stop racing.

Trouble printing to tabloid paper in CS5

I recently upgraded from Photoshop CS3 to CS5 and I am having trouble printing on large format (tabloid size) paper from Photoshop CS5. Here are the steps that I am taking.
1) File -> Print...
2) Print Settings...
3) Select Tabloid paper, hit OK
***The first red flag is that the preview pane still displays "8.5 ins x 11 ins" above it.***
4) Print
Result: An 8.5 x 11 size image prints out in the middle of my tabloid paper. I have tried Scale to Fit Media and scaling to various percentages to no avail.
I previously ran into this same problem in CS3, but was able to resolve it by first changing my paper in the now defunct "Page Setup" window.
Any tips??!
By the way, I am printing to a huge XEROX printer if that matters.

Do you have the most current printer driver for your printer? If the page size change isn't "sticking" from "Print Settings", that suggests we're not getting the changed paper size back from the driver.

Different page sizes in booklet printing

Hi,
I'm trying to create a booklet, printed on A4 paper in landscape, with two pages per sheet side, ie so when folded the booklet is A5 sized.
Using the booklet printing feature of Acrobat this works great, providing all the pages are the same size.
However I now need to add a couple of double-sized pages, eg for the centre pages and optionally for the outer cover. The nature of these pages is that they are in effect double sized single pages, ie they should fill a whole A4 sheet, not half, and I would prefer not to split in two.
Is there something I need to do when I create the PDF file from the various source documents?
Hope the above makes sense but hopefully the following will clarify:
For 8 page booklet, I want to print:
A4 sheet 1, side 1 -> page 8 & page 1
A4 sheet 1, side 2 -> page 2 & page 7
A4 sheet 2, side 1 -> page 6 & page 3
A4 sheet 2, side 2 -> page 4 & page 5 (this is a double sized page)
Many thanks,
Clive

Use the Preflight panel. Create a profile which turns on DOCUMENT > All Pages Must Use Same Size and Orientation.

Canon 4080i can't access booklet printing - Legal or Tabloid

I used to be able to do booklet printing on both Legal and Tabloid size paper. Now I only get that for Letter sized paper. Did the drivers change to disallow that or am I missing something like maybe a setting on the printer itself? Color imageRunner 4080i with AH1 and W2 over the network. Any help would be appreciated. I see that if I do it through Parallels and windowze I see those options in the print dialog there.

G Michael Otto1 wrote:
Having said that, what you are telling me is to specify the folded page size as the paper size and that won't work.
Well it sort of works for me.
With a multiple page document open in Preview, I can set the Paper Size to US Letter. I then change to the Finishing menu and select Booklet and Saddle Stitch. When I then print the job the machine errors, prompting me to load 11" x 17", which is obviously the size needed to fit two Letter size pages to a sheet to make the booklet.
If I then created a Custom Paper size of 7" x 8.5" so that I could 'use' Legal for the booklet sheet, I did find that the Booklet selection was not available. This was the case for the UFR2 and PS3 driver. Interesting side note is that the iR C5185 using the imagePASS-H1 does support the printing of booklets using Legal paper (at least through the driver it appears to support it).
So as you have found there does appear to be a limitation with the latest drivers to create a booklet using Legal paper. But booklet printing on 11x17 with Letter sized originals appears to be available with both the UFR2 and PS3 driver.

Indesign CS3 & Epson r2400 not printing tabloid paper

Indesign CS3 & Epson r2400 not printing tabloid paper. MAC OS 10.5.6. Have tried all configurations of page set up 11 x17 and 8.5 x 11 spreads, custom page sizes and default paper set up. The print comes out cut off. Epson says it's an Indd problem. Very inconvenient. Got any ideas?

I'm having the same problem with IDCS3 5.0.4 and an Epson Stylus PRO 3800 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 with version 6.11 of the Epson driver. I have a 17x17 document in InDesign that I am trying to print on 17x22 paper. The paper spools a little less than half-way down and the print begins, but it prints about 1/4 of the image--it is as if it cropped at 8.5x11 at the top right corner of the image.
I have had to resort to saving the file as a high-res jpeg and printing from Preview as a workaround. Unreal.

Booklet printing of A4 pages on A3 paper

I would like to print A4 pages on A3 paper in booklet form. I select Booklet Printing + Front side only + A3 media size.
The pages print off centre. They are scaled correctly but not positioned correctly. What esle to I need to specify?
I had a similar problem trying to expand A4 to B4 paper. I could not get the A4 page to be centred on the B4 paper.
Any thoughts?
My set up is: Ubuntu Lucid + Canon PIXMA Pro 9000 using Turboprint driver.
Richard
I am beginnig to wonder wether this might be an obscure bug in Acrobat reader 9?
If I generate a document from openoffice with A4 page size, I am able to print in booklet form successfully on A3 paper.
I have been sent a PDF created from Finale (the music publishing program). This seems to have identical properties to my OO document except for PDF version:
Finale doc:
Title:
Author:         Mr. Hedges
Creator:        PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2
Producer:       Bullzip PDF Printer / www.bullzip.com / Freeware Edition
CreationDate:   Fri Jul 9 17:08:58 2010
ModDate:        Fri Jul 9 17:08:58 2010
Tagged:         no
Pages:          36
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
File size:      720995 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.5
OO doc:
Creator:        Writer
Producer:       OpenOffice.org 3.2
CreationDate:   Tue Apr 26 15:56:13 2011
Tagged:         no
Pages:          4
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
File size:      19115 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4
When viewing the OO doc it will scale to whatever the window size of Acrobat. The finale file won't. It produces a horizontal slider.
When I print the Finale doc in booklet form the pages are stretched horizontally to over half the length of the A3 paper so I get only 1 and a bit pages printed per side of each sheet. Printing booklet to A4 work fine and produces nicely scaled A5 pages.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get around this problem?
Richard
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Thank you, Bernd, this was the answer. In case anyone else reads this, here's what I did. From the File menu I selected Print Setup, set the paper size to A3 landscape, then opened Printer Properties. I set it to 2 pages per sheet, and under Booklet Layout chose Right edge binding. Now when I print the document I get the front cover in the correct place on the right hand side of the sheet, I turn over to see pages 1 and 2 and over again to see page 3. Perfect!

CS3 Booklet Printing Staple Problem

Hi all,
Here's my problem... I have an 8 page document in Indesign CS3, with all pages letter size. I'm using Print Booklet to print this to a Xerox 7760 printer onto tabloid size paper which is printing on both sides of each sheet (duplexing) and then folded in half and stapled at the spine (therefore uses two tabloid pages). I have no problems whatsoever printing a single copy of the entire booklet. It prints just fine and puts my individual pages in the correct order. My problem is that when I need to print MULTIPLE copies of the same booklet at once, what it does is print let's say 5 copies correctly but staples them together as ONE thick booklet instead of 5 booklets. Does that make sense? The booklets are in the right order, its just one set of staples holding everything together instead of 5 indiviual sets. I've tried a number of settings but I can't figure out what I am doing incorrectly.
FYI I'm on a Mac using OSX 10.5.8 and appear to have the latest Xerox drivers.I am also trying to avoid making this into a PDF and printing out of Acrobat (haven't tried it yet but may go that route temporarily if all else fails) because I find when I print multiple copies of multipage documents out of Acrobat, it resends each page for every copy making it a horribly looooong process. I am not having this problem within InDesign. I also found that the images didn't look at sharp as printing within ID as well.
Any help would be very appreciated! I'm just scratching my head over this one. Thanks in advance!
Rayven

Hi Guy,
It's a known issue with Indesign CS3,same problem with Acrobat 8 fixed with 9 (sets stappled together)..Try to use the imposition from the driver and not from the booklet printing,correct with the version 5.0.2 but another problem with the first page rotated with the 5.0.4 so moving to CS4 is the best choice.
Good luck.

Booklet printing with HP Officejet Pro 8000 A809n

Can any one help with booklet printing? I have looked at other posts and none seem to quite cover my problem.
I want to print from Microsoft Office Publisher 2003, and have a PC running Windows XP.
The booklet needs printing on A4 (297 x 210mm) paper landscape format with 2 pages (A5) per side.
What prints out is portrait with 4 pages per sheet (A6 size) with the printing on the reverse side inverted.
I've tried all combinations of landscape and portrait etc. and nothing works. As I will need to do these booklets quite often in future I would like to sort it asap.
Thanks for any help.
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Hi there tallboy,
This microsoft article should help out with getting booklets setup and printed. Let us know if it helps.
Best of Luck!
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Booklet Printing Duplex Imposition

I have been Googling and searching the forums and I am not finding just what I need. Please help!
I want to create a booklet in InDesign. I set up my document with left and right hand pages as 1/4 of a standard letter size. So my page measures 4.25" wide and 5.5" tall. The page count varies, but let's say it's about 40 pages in length.
My goal is to print this on 4-up sheets with duplexing. I can then cut the paper, stack it and bind it.
But I am getting stuck on the imposition. Here is what I tried:
1) I output the page from InDesign as a PDF with single pages. I then opened it in Acrobat and tried to set up the print. But there is no imposition in Acrobat and, even though I have a duplex printer, it doesn't seem to understand two sided, multi-up prining. I have a cover and a first page that should get imposes back to back, but every opion in Acrobat puts them in sequential order (of varying types of maze paths for layout).
I tried "Booklet Printing" under Page Scaling, but I could not find a way to get 4-up on a page.
2) Tried booklet printing direct from InDesign. The main problem here is that their only 4-up option is for four consecutive pages laid out end to end. This is absolutely no help.
3) Found the Dave Saunder script called "MakeBooklet.jsxbin", but I have no directions for it. I cannot see the code, so I assume this has been compiled. It is for CS3 and before running it, I need directions which I cannot find.
I am very stuck. I am not sure where to go from here, but I absolutely do not have $500 for some imposition software that I will use just a few times in my lifespan. I have Distiller, but still need to generate the imposed EPS pages for that. Right now, I am thinking I will have to do this manually, and that is just going to be a nightmare.
All suggestions are welcomed!!
I have InDesign CS4, Acrobat 9 Pro and am on the Macintosh platform (iMac i7 with Mac OS 10.6.4)

You'll have to do some of this semi manually, because 1, you don't want to spend any money on it, and 2, because you're doing something a bit unusual, by putting two pages on one, and printers and free scripts don't allow for it.
So first of all run the makebooklet script on your original document, which we'll say is called filename, which will then save that file as something like filename_bklt_1. BTW you don't need any instructions for makebooklet because there are no options, at least on the version I have, just run it and see what happens!
The make another Indesign document the size of your finished page and place the filename_bklt_1 document into it. Use the MulitPageImporter script (free and very useful) to do this and do it twice, once with the page at the top of the page, the 2nd time with it at the bottom. Save that file and you're done.
Then when you make a change to your original filename document all you need to do is save that, and open the other two documents in order and update the links. Fairly automatic really, especially when it's free. FWIW Quite Imposing could do the whole thing in one easily saved step, but I totally agree, it's just not worth it for a few one off jobs.

Booklet printing - duplex printer

I am trying to print a 32-page booklet on a duplex printer. Everything seems normal in the print preview window, but on the actual print roughly 1/3 of the content is cut off from the tops of pages 2 and 16. What am I doing wrong?

This is the config I´d managed to make it work.
My first difficulty was that my printer´s options is a bit too complex(Layout, Quality, Duplex options,....), mixing that with the many combinations of options we need to fullfil in Adobe Reader aswell...far from good. I wish there was a option in my canon mp560 setup to let it print using only adobes settings. Would be easier.
Adobe Acrobat Reader:
First, at the bottom left,
Page Setup = Landscape
Hit Ok
Print Range = All
Page Handling:
Booklet Printing
Both Sides
Auto Rotate
Bind Left
Then, at the bottom: Printer...
Printer: Canon...
Layout:
2 Pages per Sheet
Paper Handling:
Check the Scate to Fit: (A4) or whatever paper size you´re printing
Cover Page:
None
Duplex Printing & Margin:
Check the Automatic Duplex Printing
Print Area = Use reduced printing
Stapling Side = Shot-side stapling (Top)
Hit Print, then Ok in Acrobat Reader.
It should print fine, as it did to my small document.

A4 booklet printing

Can I print A4 sized booklets (ie using A3 paper) using Acrobat Standard v9.4.1?
The settings that are available seem to only allow printing booklets on A4 or A5 paper.

Thanks Bill
Your reply made me probe a bit deeper into printer settings etc.
I did find a setting that was supposed to print on A3. But unfortunately it still came out on A4 paper, and the images themselves were scaled down to A6.
I’ll keep playing around.
Ps – I couldn’t find anything called multiup in any of the menus. Any clues to where I can find it?
Colin Beeby
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Two-sided Booklet printing

I'm trying to figure out a way to print an imposed booklet on two sides. This would mean printing (on a 16 page booklet): 16|1, 14|3, etc. and then flipping and popping the paper back in and backing up those pages with 2|15, 4|13, etc. Problem is that the booklet printer doesn't have an option to print every other signature. Bottom line, I can't really make a booklet that I can print out, fold and stitch. Ideas?

Then use this script for CS3:
http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/Buildbooklet.zip
Then once you create your booklet, export to PDF. From acrobat you can print odd pages and even pages only. I *think* you may have to select print reverse order for the second pass since page one will be at the bottom of your pile when you reload paper for second pass. Do a test with a few sheets first.
If you're still stumped, you can click through my name to email me directly and I'll post a QT movie for you.

Booklet printing issue with PC Adobe X Reader

I see that my issue was posted on April 18 by MA14urj. However, since it was never answered, I am going to post it again.
With Adobe Reader 9 - all versions - booklet printing worked great. With PC Adobe Reader X, if you try to print more than one copy, they all combine into one stapled copy. (As I type this, I am going back and forth, and printing 21 copies of a 38 page booket ONE AT A TIME).
As MA14urj wrote, "With Adobe Reader 9.4 it was working fine, since Update on 10.0 / 10.0.1 we have the error on 2 or more copys of a document they are stapled togehter, so they are useless!"
Someone please help us! Is there a solution? Is Apple working on this issue?
Thank you.

Adobe offers paid support for Reader. It used to be $39 per issue.
Reader will not change paper sizes automatically. It offers to fit the page printed to any printed sheet size. This option is fits most people's needs since they do not have two trays. Brother should offer the ability to change the paper size and tray within their printer driver.

Booklet Printing not working in Snow Leopard

Question re: Booklet Printing
I was trying to print something as a booklet this morning, and was very pleasantly surprised to find that the ability is apparently built in to Snow Leopard, (available in the print dialog where you can choose page layout or paper handling, etc.). But, all of the options are grayed out, and I can't check the check box to make it turn on. I tried using the feature through Word, Pages and The Hit List. Is there a magic incantation to turn the setting on that I don't know about? Or is this feature not working in 10.6?
I'm running the latest patch of 10.6, on an intel iMac.
Thanks

This isn't quite correct! The 'booklet printing' facility was present (and worked - I've just checked it!) in Leopard (10.5); but, as with some other useful functionality, was lost on installing Snow Leopard (10.6).
I suspect that it is a print driver function and that (since I'm using an HP laserjet) it will be up to HP as to when, or even if, they choose to reinstate this very useful function.
Come on HP: let's have it please!

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