Printing spreads question.

Hi all,
As an exercise, I copied my 11x17 folded brochure file and reformatted it into a 4 page 8.5x11 document to test some printing options.
I want to print pages 1 and 4, the front and back outside pages, together on a single 11x17 sheet. I selected print spread with range 4,1 but it prints (page 4 and a blank page) and (page 1 and a blank page) on two separate 11x17 pages apparently creating a spread by adding a blank page where there is no adjacent page. The range setting is ignored.
Is there a way to get InDesign to print any two pages on one sheet?

Print Booklet isn't very good at printing only selected spreads, so you might want to look at one of the scripts for imposition instead, or you could just do it manually for a four page doc. Start by creating a new section at page 4 and set the numbering to manual, start at 4. Now you can drag it to the left of page 1 and you'll have two spreads in the correct order.
If you've used automatic page numbering, though, you'll need to go back to the pages panel and start a new section again for page 1, or your document will show page numbers 4 through 7 instead of 4 and 1 through 3.
Or just use print booklet and print the whole thing to PDF, then print the selected spread to paper from Acrobat.
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