When I print my indesign doc, it prints/views as two pages per sheet rather than one....

Where can I go to change this setting?
I just want to see one page in my view and print one page per sheet on regular letter size paper.

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What printer model? What program are you printing from?
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I have no idea what this statement means.
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issue. But getting the same content to repeat on a single
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of the print operation unless you're dealing with commercial
devices.
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Hello
I made a java application to print a file.
Everything works fine.
Now, I would like to be able to indicate that I want to print 2 pages per sheet.
How can I do that?

Thanks
So I tried using 2 different ways: using javax.print API and using java.awt.print.PrinterJob
Here is the code and result with the javax.print API:
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Code:
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import javax.print.Doc;
import javax.print.DocFlavor;
import javax.print.DocPrintJob;
import javax.print.PrintService;
import javax.print.PrintServiceLookup;
import javax.print.ServiceUI;
import javax.print.SimpleDoc;
import javax.print.attribute.Attribute;
import javax.print.attribute.AttributeSet;
import javax.print.attribute.HashAttributeSet;
import javax.print.attribute.PrintRequestAttributeSet;
import javax.print.attribute.HashPrintRequestAttributeSet;
import javax.print.attribute.PrintServiceAttributeSet;
import javax.print.attribute.standard.JobName;
import javax.print.attribute.standard.Sides;
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     public static void main(String[] args) {
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               e.printStackTrace();
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                    fis.close();
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import java.awt.print.PageFormat;
import java.awt.print.PrinterJob;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
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import com.sun.pdfview.PDFPrintPage;
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                    pj.print();
          } catch(Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          } finally {
               try {
                    psStream.close();
               } catch(Exception se) {}
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Thanks
Regards.
Edited by: pjmorce on Feb 18, 2009 1:13 AM
Edited by: pjmorce on Feb 18, 2009 5:51 AM

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