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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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