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by museum_tech - 11/12/08 9:23 AMHi, I am trying to print a booklet. The document is set up as four landscape pages with two columns per page. If they print 2-sided and are saddle-stitched, the booklet should look like a landscape page folded in half and stapled down the center.
We originally designed the brochure in microsoft publisher, which gave us the same problem.
My system operates on Windows XP with microsoft word 2003.
I have several problems:
A) When the pages print front to back, the back pages are upside-down.
B) When I select booklet form and select saddle-stitch, the document comes out as one page front and back that is folded in half with no staples.
Does anyone have any insight into this?
Thank you
Re: printing
by Kees Bakker
- 11/12/08 12:11 PM
In reply to: microsoft word printing by museum_tech
This doesn't look to be a Word problem, but a problem with your multi-purpose printer. Why not print it at a commercial printing house? It's their work, and they know how to handle their printing machines.
Kees
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by museum_tech - 11/12/08 12:56 PM In reply to: Re: printing by Kees Bakker
We are a very small museum that only needs a few booklets, so it's not worth the commercial printing house.
Thank you though, now I have another place to start looking.
Tehn do it manually
by Kees Bakker - 11/13/08 12:43 AM
In reply to: re by museum_tech
For example for an 8 page-booklet:
- print page 8,1,6,3 (2 logical pages on 1 physical page, your printer must support that)
- put the 2 sheets in again to print the other side (in the right orientation!)
- print page 2,7,4,5
Done!
Kees
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by museum_tech - 11/13/08 12:20 PM In reply to: Tehn do it manually by Kees Bakker
We already figured that part out. My boss is insisting that we have the document printable from a computer/saved on the printer so that anyone can access it. Hence, my initial technical question. Thank you for all your help.
On the computer ...
by Kees Bakker - 11/13/08 12:34 PM
In reply to: re by museum_tech
you can easily make a pdf-file with, say, 8 pages numbered from 1 to 8 in that sequence. That's a very reasonable way to have it available electronically. Andybody wanting a hard copy in some other format then 8 one-sided pages should find a way to do that with HIS printer.
Maybe you can even make a pdf in smaller format (2 pages on one A4 in landscape), but even that needs care to be printed and stapled correctly. And you can't have a 2-sided pdf shown on a two sided monitor. All e-books are one-sided and sequential.
Kees
booklet printing in Word 2003
by mjwmsc - 5/1/09 6:03 PM In reply to: microsoft word printing by museum_techI find printing booklets with Word 2003 very straightforward with Bookfold page setup.
I open a new document, choose A4 page size,choose bookfold set up, set the top, bottom, outside & inside (gutter) margins to suit myself.
I copy and paste the text from the standard format original document into the new "bookfold" empty document -- don't use landscape mode and columns!
I choose my duplexing printer (Xerox Phaser 8550),choose double-side printing, and folding on the short edge (otherwise the verso side will print around the wrong way -- as yours did). And off it goes.
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