Double Sided A4 Book Printing

Question

I've been an aperture user since 1.0 and was always impressed with the potential of the book tool to create easily albums of photos. The great thing about it of course is that you can fiddle with the RAW images directly in the layout without having to export as tiff's or jpeg's as you probably would need to with other layout programs.
Having had a couple of albums printed by Apple, though, I wasn't too impressed with the quality of the print. So thought the way forward was to print at home. Unfortunately, living in Europe, getting hold of US letter size photo paper is nigh on impossible (and even more difficult for double sided media!). I really hope V2 of Aperture will improve the book tool by giving the option for different sized pages.
I have managed to work out the following method to print double sided on A4.
In File:Page setup I select A4 paper. I have an Epson 3800 and use the borderless setting.
Set up the printer dialog as you would print for A4. I print a calibration sheet and plug the numbers into the calibrate dialog box. This allows more accurate control of the borders (or lack of!)
For printer settings I use the 'document paper size' and whatever 'print settings' you like for the media used. Select 'print even pages'.
Then hit print.
The printer will then print all the even pages aligned borderless to the leading edge of the paper with an unprinted border on the trailing edge of about 18mm. I trim all the sheets of paper to just short of this (length 279mm on my trimmer), flip them over and print the other pages (with 'print odd pages' this time selected). Need to be a bit careful at this stage though as the cover counts as a page so you may need to put in an extra sheet on the front for this.
My local bookbinder does an excellent job of binding the pages into a great looking album which is a thousand times better looking than the Apple book. The trimmed edges go into the spine of the book if you do it this way round, so any slight irregularities don't matter.
The only tedious part is trimming down the sheets. I do hope the next version of Aperture has A4 or A3 even as an option for page size. Of course printing single sided books are easier - just trim the edges!
BTW great paper I've found for books is Permajet Double sided lustre. Great quality with the 3800!
AE

Answer 1

Hi,
Follow these steps to disable two sided printing:
Open the file you would like to print. From the File menu select Print. The Print window appears.
NOTE: The Print window might be minimized. Click the Show Details button to see all available settings.
Click the settings drop down, it will usually appear as the name of the program (e.g. TextEdit)
Will appear as Copies & Pages within Microsoft Office applications.
Select Layout from the drop-down menu.
Set the Two-Sided option as Off.
You may save the settings as a preset by clicking Presets > Save Current Settings as Preset...
By doing so and completing the print job these settings will remain default till another preset will be used in the future.
Regards,
Shlomi
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