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Booklet Printing Problems
I am trying to print a 20 page booket on 8.5 X 11 paper, 2 pages per leaf.
Everything looks fine on screen. However, when I print it will not print the pages in the correct order. The first page prints fine (page 20 and 1). Though I did not tell it to it continues to print the next set (2 and 19). Though I did not want it to print 2/19 it is printed correctly on the page. My intent was to turn the 20/1 page over and print 2/19 on the back...and so on throughout the booklet. From this point the world gets very confusing. If I tell it to print 2/19, it does...sort of. It prints them on seperate pages in the wrong spot on those pages, the 2 on the side the 19 should be on and the 19 on the side the 2 should be on, and each on a seperate sheet of paper. Then it gets worse. If I tell it to print page 3 it prints page 19. If I tell it to print page 4 I get page 20. If I say print page 6 I get page 17. I do have the print instructions set for borderless printing and I lie to it about the paper type so that it will print borderless...but that should not effect page printing I don't think. The computer is new (Daktech) and the printer is new (Epson all in one CX7400) If anyone can help I would appreciate it. This is baffling. |
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Booklet Printing Problems
Unless your printer duplexes automatically, you will need to check "Manual
duplex" in the Print dialog to make Word hold the back sides of the sheets for the flip-over run. My experience with printing selected pages of a booklet is pretty dismal. In theory, if you select a given page, Word is supposed to print all four pages that would print on that sheet, but, even when I specify the exact pages in the correct order, I find that Word frequently does no such thing but instead prints blank pages or the pages in the wrong place, as you have seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... I am trying to print a 20 page booket on 8.5 X 11 paper, 2 pages per leaf. Everything looks fine on screen. However, when I print it will not print the pages in the correct order. The first page prints fine (page 20 and 1). Though I did not tell it to it continues to print the next set (2 and 19). Though I did not want it to print 2/19 it is printed correctly on the page. My intent was to turn the 20/1 page over and print 2/19 on the back...and so on throughout the booklet. From this point the world gets very confusing. If I tell it to print 2/19, it does...sort of. It prints them on seperate pages in the wrong spot on those pages, the 2 on the side the 19 should be on and the 19 on the side the 2 should be on, and each on a seperate sheet of paper. Then it gets worse. If I tell it to print page 3 it prints page 19. If I tell it to print page 4 I get page 20. If I say print page 6 I get page 17. I do have the print instructions set for borderless printing and I lie to it about the paper type so that it will print borderless...but that should not effect page printing I don't think. The computer is new (Daktech) and the printer is new (Epson all in one CX7400) If anyone can help I would appreciate it. This is baffling. |
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Thanks for trying.
I checked 'manual duplex' as you suggested. I told it to print page 2. It showed a dialogue box telling me to flip my page or something like that then hit OK. I hit OK and it squirted out a blank sheet then printed page 19 on the following sheet...a half sheet out of place. Then I told it to print page 16. It gave the same dialogue. I hit OK. It spit out a blank sheet then crashed Word. I reopened word and tried again with another page...same thing...spit out a blank then crashed. This is vexing...I may have to see if I can make it work in Publisher. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless your printer duplexes automatically, you will need to check "Manual duplex" in the Print dialog to make Word hold the back sides of the sheets for the flip-over run. My experience with printing selected pages of a booklet is pretty dismal. In theory, if you select a given page, Word is supposed to print all four pages that would print on that sheet, but, even when I specify the exact pages in the correct order, I find that Word frequently does no such thing but instead prints blank pages or the pages in the wrong place, as you have seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... I am trying to print a 20 page booket on 8.5 X 11 paper, 2 pages per leaf. Everything looks fine on screen. However, when I print it will not print the pages in the correct order. The first page prints fine (page 20 and 1). Though I did not tell it to it continues to print the next set (2 and 19). Though I did not want it to print 2/19 it is printed correctly on the page. My intent was to turn the 20/1 page over and print 2/19 on the back...and so on throughout the booklet. From this point the world gets very confusing. If I tell it to print 2/19, it does...sort of. It prints them on seperate pages in the wrong spot on those pages, the 2 on the side the 19 should be on and the 19 on the side the 2 should be on, and each on a seperate sheet of paper. Then it gets worse. If I tell it to print page 3 it prints page 19. If I tell it to print page 4 I get page 20. If I say print page 6 I get page 17. I do have the print instructions set for borderless printing and I lie to it about the paper type so that it will print borderless...but that should not effect page printing I don't think. The computer is new (Daktech) and the printer is new (Epson all in one CX7400) If anyone can help I would appreciate it. This is baffling. |
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Booklet Printing Problems
It will work great in Publisher...
-- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... Thanks for trying. I checked 'manual duplex' as you suggested. I told it to print page 2. It showed a dialogue box telling me to flip my page or something like that then hit OK. I hit OK and it squirted out a blank sheet then printed page 19 on the following sheet...a half sheet out of place. Then I told it to print page 16. It gave the same dialogue. I hit OK. It spit out a blank sheet then crashed Word. I reopened word and tried again with another page...same thing...spit out a blank then crashed. This is vexing...I may have to see if I can make it work in Publisher. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless your printer duplexes automatically, you will need to check "Manual duplex" in the Print dialog to make Word hold the back sides of the sheets for the flip-over run. My experience with printing selected pages of a booklet is pretty dismal. In theory, if you select a given page, Word is supposed to print all four pages that would print on that sheet, but, even when I specify the exact pages in the correct order, I find that Word frequently does no such thing but instead prints blank pages or the pages in the wrong place, as you have seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... I am trying to print a 20 page booket on 8.5 X 11 paper, 2 pages per leaf. Everything looks fine on screen. However, when I print it will not print the pages in the correct order. The first page prints fine (page 20 and 1). Though I did not tell it to it continues to print the next set (2 and 19). Though I did not want it to print 2/19 it is printed correctly on the page. My intent was to turn the 20/1 page over and print 2/19 on the back...and so on throughout the booklet. From this point the world gets very confusing. If I tell it to print 2/19, it does...sort of. It prints them on seperate pages in the wrong spot on those pages, the 2 on the side the 19 should be on and the 19 on the side the 2 should be on, and each on a seperate sheet of paper. Then it gets worse. If I tell it to print page 3 it prints page 19. If I tell it to print page 4 I get page 20. If I say print page 6 I get page 17. I do have the print instructions set for borderless printing and I lie to it about the paper type so that it will print borderless...but that should not effect page printing I don't think. The computer is new (Daktech) and the printer is new (Epson all in one CX7400) If anyone can help I would appreciate it. This is baffling. |
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Booklet Printing Problems
I wasn't suggesting that "Manual duplex" would help in printing specific
pages; the only luck I've ever had with printing booklets was in printing the entire thing, single-sided as camera-ready copy for commercial offset printing. Or I convert them to PDF to send to a printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... Thanks for trying. I checked 'manual duplex' as you suggested. I told it to print page 2. It showed a dialogue box telling me to flip my page or something like that then hit OK. I hit OK and it squirted out a blank sheet then printed page 19 on the following sheet...a half sheet out of place. Then I told it to print page 16. It gave the same dialogue. I hit OK. It spit out a blank sheet then crashed Word. I reopened word and tried again with another page...same thing...spit out a blank then crashed. This is vexing...I may have to see if I can make it work in Publisher. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless your printer duplexes automatically, you will need to check "Manual duplex" in the Print dialog to make Word hold the back sides of the sheets for the flip-over run. My experience with printing selected pages of a booklet is pretty dismal. In theory, if you select a given page, Word is supposed to print all four pages that would print on that sheet, but, even when I specify the exact pages in the correct order, I find that Word frequently does no such thing but instead prints blank pages or the pages in the wrong place, as you have seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... I am trying to print a 20 page booket on 8.5 X 11 paper, 2 pages per leaf. Everything looks fine on screen. However, when I print it will not the pages in the correct order. The first page prints fine (page 20 and 1). Though I did not tell it to it continues to print the next set (2 and 19). Though I did not want it to print 2/19 it is printed correctly on the page. My intent was to turn the 20/1 page over and print 2/19 on the back...and so on throughout the booklet. From this point the world gets very confusing. If I tell it to print 2/19, it does...sort of. It prints them on seperate pages in the wrong spot on those pages, the 2 on the side the 19 should be on and the 19 on the side the 2 should be on, and each on a seperate sheet of paper. Then it gets worse. If I tell it to print page 3 it prints page 19. If I tell it to print page 4 I get page 20. If I say print page 6 I get page 17. I do have the print instructions set for borderless printing and I lie to it about the paper type so that it will print borderless...but that should not effect page printing I don't think. The computer is new (Daktech) and the printer is new (Epson all in one CX7400) If anyone can help I would appreciate it. This is baffling. |
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Booklet Printing Problems
Thanks. I tried printing the whole thing on manual duplex and it came out as
it was supposed to. I flipped the pages when the first batch was done and it was smooth sailing....slow sailing but smooth. The problem now is that I better find all erratta and fix any page design flaws I see now because the whole thing will have to be reprinted to correct any problem...which would be a lot easier of course if you could just reprint the problem page. But then I suppose you know that. Thanks for the help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I wasn't suggesting that "Manual duplex" would help in printing specific pages; the only luck I've ever had with printing booklets was in printing the entire thing, single-sided as camera-ready copy for commercial offset printing. Or I convert them to PDF to send to a printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... Thanks for trying. I checked 'manual duplex' as you suggested. I told it to print page 2. It showed a dialogue box telling me to flip my page or something like that then hit OK. I hit OK and it squirted out a blank sheet then printed page 19 on the following sheet...a half sheet out of place. Then I told it to print page 16. It gave the same dialogue. I hit OK. It spit out a blank sheet then crashed Word. I reopened word and tried again with another page...same thing...spit out a blank then crashed. This is vexing...I may have to see if I can make it work in Publisher. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless your printer duplexes automatically, you will need to check "Manual duplex" in the Print dialog to make Word hold the back sides of the sheets for the flip-over run. My experience with printing selected pages of a booklet is pretty dismal. In theory, if you select a given page, Word is supposed to print all four pages that would print on that sheet, but, even when I specify the exact pages in the correct order, I find that Word frequently does no such thing but instead prints blank pages or the pages in the wrong place, as you have seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... I am trying to print a 20 page booket on 8.5 X 11 paper, 2 pages per leaf. Everything looks fine on screen. However, when I print it will not the pages in the correct order. The first page prints fine (page 20 and 1). Though I did not tell it to it continues to print the next set (2 and 19). Though I did not want it to print 2/19 it is printed correctly on the page. My intent was to turn the 20/1 page over and print 2/19 on the back...and so on throughout the booklet. From this point the world gets very confusing. If I tell it to print 2/19, it does...sort of. It prints them on seperate pages in the wrong spot on those pages, the 2 on the side the 19 should be on and the 19 on the side the 2 should be on, and each on a seperate sheet of paper. Then it gets worse. If I tell it to print page 3 it prints page 19. If I tell it to print page 4 I get page 20. If I say print page 6 I get page 17. I do have the print instructions set for borderless printing and I lie to it about the paper type so that it will print borderless...but that should not effect page printing I don't think. The computer is new (Daktech) and the printer is new (Epson all in one CX7400) If anyone can help I would appreciate it. This is baffling. |
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Booklet Printing Problems
Yes, this is why I don't use "Book fold" for any but the shortest booklets
(some booklets I do are up to 100 pages) or ones that will be printed as PDFs. In some other cases I use the method described at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...etPrinting.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... Thanks. I tried printing the whole thing on manual duplex and it came out as it was supposed to. I flipped the pages when the first batch was done and it was smooth sailing....slow sailing but smooth. The problem now is that I better find all erratta and fix any page design flaws I see now because the whole thing will have to be reprinted to correct any problem...which would be a lot easier of course if you could just reprint the problem page. But then I suppose you know that. Thanks for the help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I wasn't suggesting that "Manual duplex" would help in printing specific pages; the only luck I've ever had with printing booklets was in printing the entire thing, single-sided as camera-ready copy for commercial offset printing. Or I convert them to PDF to send to a printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... Thanks for trying. I checked 'manual duplex' as you suggested. I told it to print page 2. It showed a dialogue box telling me to flip my page or something like that then hit OK. I hit OK and it squirted out a blank sheet then printed page 19 on the following sheet...a half sheet out of place. Then I told it to page 16. It gave the same dialogue. I hit OK. It spit out a blank sheet then crashed Word. I reopened word and tried again with another page...same thing...spit out a blank then crashed. This is vexing...I may have to see if I can make it work in Publisher. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless your printer duplexes automatically, you will need to check "Manual duplex" in the Print dialog to make Word hold the back sides of the sheets for the flip-over run. My experience with printing selected pages of a booklet is pretty dismal. In theory, if you select a given page, Word is supposed to print all four pages that would print on that sheet, but, even when I specify the exact pages in the correct order, I find that Word frequently does no such thing but instead prints blank pages or the pages in the wrong place, as you have seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RWHegwood" wrote in message ... I am trying to print a 20 page booket on 8.5 X 11 paper, 2 pages per leaf. Everything looks fine on screen. However, when I print it will not the pages in the correct order. The first page prints fine (page 20 and 1). Though I did not tell it to it continues to print the next set (2 and 19). Though I did not want it to print 2/19 it is printed correctly on the page. My intent was to turn the 20/1 page over and print 2/19 on the back...and so on throughout the booklet. From this point the world gets very confusing. If I tell it to print 2/19, it does...sort of. It prints them on seperate pages in the wrong spot on those pages, the 2 on the side the 19 should be on and the 19 on the side the 2 should be on, and each on a seperate sheet of paper. Then it gets worse. If I tell it to print page 3 it prints page 19. If I tell it to page 4 I get page 20. If I say print page 6 I get page 17. I do have the print instructions set for borderless printing and I lie to it about the paper type so that it will print borderless...but that should not effect page printing I don't think. The computer is new (Daktech) and the printer is new (Epson all in one CX7400) If anyone can help I would appreciate it. This is baffling. |
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