Indesign Booklet printing

I've been putting together my portfolio using indesign, I have been doing it setup on landscape A2 pages. When I come to print it it is cheaper at uni to print off two pages on one A1 sheet and trim it myself than print each onto a separate A2 sheet each time.
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/5931/42388234vm4.jpg
This is a screen of a couple of my pages, I basically want to create a set of pdfs which I can send to the printer which have two of these A2 pages on one A1 Page, which should work with the two images sat on top of each other on an A1 portrait.
I've had a play with the print settings/booklet settings but cant figure out how I go about setting it to print like that, sure it can be done as it has all the booklet options, just cant figure out which settings i need to play with.
Anyone shed any light?
Many Thanks
Simon

I think you will need to rotate all the images to put them 2-up.
Teus de Jong wrote a script a couple of years ago for doing this for calendars:
Teus de Jong, "Making a document with horizontal (or top) binding spine, e.g. for calendars" #1, 18 Nov 2005 8:01 am
From there I think you could simply print as spreads, or export a new PDF as spreads if the printer wants a PDF.
Peter

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[Ann.] Before starting yet another discussion complaining about InDesign's "Print Booklet ..."

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