Print Booklet Problem

Indesign print booklet is not working correctly. I only get the left side of the page spread. It worked correctly 2 days ago on the same document. I am printing the file with the postscript printer and using Distiller to make a PDF to send to my print company. Working with a Mac OS10.8.2 and Indesign CS5. Any ideas on how to correct this problem would be appreciated.

I'll give you the same advice I give everyone else in this situation.
Find another printer. A printer asking you to do the imposition is like
a mechanic asking you to pick up oil and filter before dropping off you car.
Bob

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Print Booklet Problem when creating hardcopy

Hey all,
I recently designed a 24 page magazine, and assorted all the pages. I then used the feature Print Booklet in order to create the magazine into the form required by the printing company. The document then had the crop marks, but not the bleed, even though i had set it to have a bleed in the "Print settings" menu. The next step I did was make sure that the page size it would be printed on would be A3, and then set it to landscape to ensure that it would fold correctly once it was stapled. I took the PDF file to the printing company, and had it printed.
However, here is where the problem arose. The company had printed the PDF onto their sheets, and had bundled up the pages into the magazine form, but the size was smaller than an A4, but larger than an A5. Would anyone happen to know why the size became smaller than A4. This means the entirety of the magazine is smaller than an A4 size. The company prints on a sheet of paper larger than A3 in order to use the crop marks and bleed marks.
When i'm in the Print Settings dialogue after pressing "print booklet", this is what I have chosen. The Original document bleeding is at 3mm. However when they printed it they said they could not see the bleed lines?
Would it have anything to do with me pressing 'scale to fit'? I have noticed that saving the PDF with 'scale to fit' on shows the crop marks, but i get the error which i stated earlier.
Another thing i noticed is that when i select the other option, and leave it at 100%, it doesnt give me the crop marks in the PDF. The following screenshots are from adobe reader.
As you can see, there are crop lines (this was from selecting 'scale to fit').
As seen here, there are no crop lines (from not selecting 'scale to fit'
Any help would be greatly appreciated as it is for a major project.

One thing that stands out is that you have "Scale to Fit" selected - whereas you should have 100% selected
And I don't think you should be sending printers a "imposed" version of your booklet.
Standard procedure is to send them single page pdfs with crop marks and bleed and then they impose the book.

Printing Booklet, problem with gutter

I'm trying to print a 16 page PDF document from Acrobat Pro X as a booklet using the Manual Duplex workflow (Print front side, rotate printed pages and reinsert in printer, print backside in reverse order).
The original document is an InDesign 3.5" x 5.5" portrait. I am printing to letter sized paper, and want to end up with a 3.5" x 5.5" booklet when it is trimmed.
The finished printed pages are imposed correctly and I can fold my stack into a single-fold booklet and leaf through pages in order from front to back.
The problem is the pages do not butt at the gutter but are separated by a good inch and a half.
How do I get the pages to touch at the fold line?

Here is a followup to my original post:
Here is a link to a screen capture showing the Print dialog box.
Notice in the small thumbnail view of the spread that both pages are a considerable distance apart.
The actual distance should be a quarter of that.
http://www.margnat.com/tech/ManualDuplex.1.png
I have successfully created and printed manual duplex documents in the past where the pages print side-by-side, touching at the fold, so I’m puzzled as to what I did differently here. Might I have set something up in InDesign when I exported as PDF that might effect this?

Problem printing booklet to Postscript file to PDF (Mac)

I am running Mac OSX 10.7.5 and InDesign CC 9.2.1
I am trying to export a booklet to a PDF so I can send it to another machine to print. I am going to File> Print Booklet and I am printing to a PostScript file. I am then opening it up in Preview and the orientation of the file is messed up. Below are some screenshots.
So in File>Print Booklet> Preview it shows that I am perfectly inside the guidelines. Notice it is in landscape mode.
Then I export it to a .ps file and open it up in Preview (note: I have also tried Acrobat IX Pro). And the file is messed up and in portrait mode.
From what I can tell it looks like InDesign is exporting the file in portrait instead of landscape but I can't change it in the InDesign Print Booklet settings because it is greyed out.
Any recommendations on how to fix this problem? Or workarounds so that I can export a booklet to a PDF? I need to export it in 2-up saddle stitch mode, so I need page 1 to be next to page 12 and so on.
Thank you for the help!

You need to download and install the ADPDF9.PPD printer description and use it instead of Device Independent.

CS3 print booklet margins problem

Thanks to the help of this forum, I can now print my 12-page newsletter as a booklet with 3 sheets of tabloid paper. BUT ... one new problem is that the leading edge of each printed sheet has a small margin, making the center become off-center, and the far edge of the sheet has a large margin.
Any ideas out there of what I'm doing incorrectly?
Thanks.

This could be caused by asking for printers marks if the page position in the setup dialog is set to upper left, or even without marks if the sheet is larger than required to hold both pages and the position is upper left. The cure for that is to click the Print Settings button in the Print Booklet dialog and change the positioning to "centered."
Also, many inkjet printers have asymetric margins which can potentially throw off even centered content or cut off part of the trailing edge of the page.
Peter

Problem Print Booklet / PS File

Hello.
When I used "Print Booklet" and choose PS file / PPD Adobe, my PDF (with distiller) misses just the top and left bleed in my pdf. It was blank.
The problem is for less than A4 size.
My document is a 4 page booklet A6 (closed size).
Thanks in advance.

Can I ask why you're using Print Booklet and using PS File/PPD?
This is an archaic way of making a PDF.
A couple of things to realise
The printer should do imposing, supply as pages 1-end in sequence, do not impose yourself.
Printing to PDF loses lots of PDF smartness, such as transparency, hyperlinks, and lots of other hidden details for printing goodness
If you need a PDF for yourself to print in house, why not send directly to your printer from InDesign using File>Print Booklet?
Otherwise, for your book use File>Export and choose PDF.
In Acrobat, choose the Print Booklet feature.https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html

Problem when printing booklets prints pages 1,2 and 11 as if I wants to print all

I am using XP and 2000 MS word
I am having a problem when printing booklets from time to time. I get it ready to print in booklet form with 12 pages and my printer gives me the options. “Print all” “current page” “selection” or “pages” Because it is booklet I want to print the first 4 pages to be folded and glued as a small book. When I inter 1-4 as the example shows some times it prints OK but about a week later it prints pages 1,2 and 11 as if it wants to print all. I thought it was the printer but think it could be in some setting of the word program or my computer it self.

Also does this (i.e. prints web pages over several pages despite changing settings) on my laptop at work with an HP printer. This started when I upgraded to Firefox 9.0.1.

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.

Problems with 'Print Booklet' from InDesign CS4

I am having problems using the 'Print Booklet commane in InDesign CS4. I have done this 100s of time from CS3 with no problems but for some reason it just won't auto duplex (print on both sides of the paper) when I do it from CS4. USing exactly the same settings, computer and file. The printer is setup correctly as will print double-sided automatically from other apps. Using mac leopard. Any ideas?

Unfortunately, I have tried this. I choose 'layout' from the printer option within the driver and pick 'short edged binding'. Still no luck.

Problems Printing Booklet

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This is a new problem for me, never had this issue before.
I am creating a booklet in indesign and when I got to print booklet Indesign works like normal outputing the stuff but when it sends it to Adobe PDF 8.0 I get an error in the print window
/usr/lbexec/cups/filter/pstops failed
Was wondering what the problem could be and how to fix this. I have two mac computers and they do the exact same thing.
I am working in CS3
If someone could help me that would be great. Thanks in advance.

Never recommend fix permissions, it is just a waste of time. Adobe products do not use Installer.app.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1452
Does Disk Utility check permissions on all files?
No. Files that aren't installed as part of an Apple-originated installer package are not listed in a receipt and therefore are not checked. For example, if you install an application using a non-Apple installer application, or by copying it from a disk image, network volume, or other disk instead of installing it via Installer, a receipt file isn't created. This is expected. Some applications are designed to be installed in one of those ways.

Print booklet - white edge problem

Does anyone know why PDFs I've made with 'Print Booklet' always have a white edge on left side only?
I'm trying to make a 2-up saddle stitch PDF from an A4 InDesign 12 page document with 3mm bleed. In Print Settings I select 'Adobe PDF 9.0' printer, 'Use document bleed settings', with paper size big enough to include A3 with a 3mm bleed all round. Yet I always get a PDF in the correct page size (303 x 426mm) with the bleed on every side except the left - which is just blank (3mm white edge).
In the preview section of 'Print Booklet' it looks like the bleed is there, but mysteriously vanishes when output (it's as if either Acrobat or InDesign knows the bleed is there but omits the artwork in the left had bleed only.
Any help much appreciated.

In the Print Booklet
In the Margins Section
Put in the depth of the bleed all around.
go to your print settings.
Choose PDF
Change the width to custom
Add in the bleed amount in the page size.
Then on the Bleed area insert the amount of bleed you need.
Then say ok
I just did it here and it worked just fine.

INDD CS5 print booklet impose problem

Using iMac with Lion and INDD CS5.
Im doing a 28 page booklet on legal paper (8.5x14), so each final page is 8.5 tall by 7 wide. I used the Print Booklet feature to make an imposed PDF and the preview looked fine, but the resulting ps file opens and its "imposed" but it only is getting the left page and part of the right page, almost as if the page size its "printing" to is not legal. But I can't find where I make sure its destination is legal paper. Anywhere in the print or settings where its specifies paper, its grayed out or unavailable.
Any help?

This is a 100% Adobe issue, I've been following a tutorial off the Adobe site, printing to a PS file, and it still screws up.
BUT......
Use FIX 2 off this link, worked great for me.
http://yourartdirector.blogspot.com/2010/11/indesign-print-booklet-issue-solved.html

Problem with Indesign CS3 print booklet option

HI I am trying to print a document as a booklet but under the file menu there is no "print booklet" option. Please help, I have look online for hours to find out the answer with no avail. Thanks Monika

Hi Monika,
If you'd like to test drive Quite Imposing Plus here is a temporary number and private code.
Go to our site www.quite.com and download the current version.
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Expires end 8/2010 Serial 4268-8143-8389-7025 Code 6099
Once loaded Please look at Getting Started tech sheet. Go to our Imposition Control Panel and click on the ? button.....then click the Getting Started button. Also, lots of good information on signature setups Step-by-step Instructions and New features. Also, check out Tips and Tricks to see how to create other signature setups (e.g. Step and repeat, cut stacks, double cut stacks, add color bars, etc.)
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Print Booklet Bleed Issue in CS6

When I try to print the file as a booklet, the left and right bleeding of some pages does not appear on themselves; however, they appear on the next spread.
The spread goes like this, with some objects exceeding the pages for bleeding:
When I print as a booklet, the preview goes like this:
Front and Back Covers; their left and right bleed do not show...
...but instead, they reach the next spread. These blue stripes in the left and right are the continuation of the covers above.
And it keeps happening with other pages that need bleeding. The top and bottom bleed are fine.
I tried changing many options in the print booklet dialogue box, even in the printer setup itself.
It may be that I have built the spreads wrong too I am still thinking if these 2 and 21 pages are necessary to exist in the file, since they are only blank. (though I had tried deleting them too, and the issue still exist)
I looked everywhere for a solution, maybe I don't know the right terms to search for this problem...
I also noticed that everything goes well while using the Export (to PDF) command.
The reason I'm using the booklet option is to have a document with the pages in an order ready for print and staples,
while maintaining the 1 to 22 sequence to use in the web.
It would be terrible creating another document and change the page numbers manually.
Hope somebody knows how to make it.

Hi Mikey!
My bad, sorry: actually there're 24 pages counting the covers and the 2 blank pages. (1-22 is the numbering for the inside content).
Even changing the page numbers won't correct the bleed.
Deciding to do something new, I isolated the pages, which first were Facing Pages.
After making a end with the spreads, the Booklet option seemed to function normally with the document bleed.
The problem is that I still would have to change the margins of the pages manually,
since they are not spreads anymore and now there's no inside/outside margins, but left/right instead.
If I could understand why I can't print the spreads as booklet would be so much better...

How to print 'booklet' on Officejet 4500 Wireless?

The office I work in has just bought a new Officejet 4500 Wireless, but we are unsure how to print a booklet. With our old printer, the option came up once you hit print, but now it doesn't. Does anyone know how to print a booklet on this type of printer? Thanks for advice. The opertaing sytem is Windows 7 if that makes a difference.

Hi there kittypotpie,
This article covers printing booklets via office. Give the steps outlined a shot and let us know if it helps.
Best of Luck!
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