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Booklet printing pages upside down

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Please help!!!

I have wasted alot of time and paper today trying to figure out why this is happening!

When I go to print a booklet, some of the inside pages are printed upside down.

I have gone through every single setting in both Indesign and my printer settings and cannot workout wots going on!

When I go to print the booklet, the preview panel shows everything correct, but wot prints out is all over the place.

Please someone help before I pull my hair out! lol x

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selhartCorrect answer

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I found this article to be helpful in printing booklets from InDesign.

Guide on using Print Booklet feature in InDesign - WSA

Vivacious_Luminary0ac7

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If your booklet pages are printing upside down, check the printer’s duplex/booklet settings and select the correct binding or flip orientation. Make sure Flip on short edge is selected for booklet printing, then print a test page... ...

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phosphoricc

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Here Adobe describes step by step process of how to print brochures using Reader and Acrobat X

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html

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linnea12

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I just spent hours and loads of paper on this, looked at all the help pages here and elsewhere, tried updating printer driver. Discovered it was printing back side in PDF booklet upside down on two printers (Brother mono laser and Epson Expression). I tried all the settings I could find. Someone somewhere said set it to print in portrait not landscape, and Voilla! It worked. Why did it take me hours and hours to find this and why don't the Adobe guideless specify this upfront? I was already saying bind on short edge. Tried checking "automatically rotate pages." Nothing worked until setting print setting to portrait rather than landscape.

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turtlerunner

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This is the answer I was seeking. I had checked landscape and it was constantly printing the backside of my spreads incorrectly. Switching back to portrait gave me the control back.

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ILC Japan

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I am printing a small book where 2 pages fit on one side of an A5 page

The following settings work for me.

When saving from InDesign select PDF Print as opposed to Interactive PDF. (Graphics do not print correctly when Interactive setting is used.

Part 1

1. Click on the "Size" button then more options and activate "Reverse pages"

2. Select "Actual size"

3. Select "Print on both sides", Flip on "long edge"

4. Orientation is "Auto portrait/landscape

5. Click on page setup and make sure that A5 is selected

Part 2

6. Click on "Booklet"

7. Orientation is portrait

8. Print

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Chelsea #1 Fan

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If you are using an HP Officejet (mine is the OfficeJet Pro 8600) when you bring up the printer dialog box in Acrobat Reader and select booklet, you must check the box next to "Auto-rotate pages within each sheet". This will make the back sides of each sheet print right-side up.

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cindyd54235864

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Something to add...I was having the same issue. I tried "flip along short" and "flip along long" edge, both producing the same result. I closed the file, quit Acrobat, and re-started the program. The next attempt worked. The old turn it off and turn it back on trick works again!

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notime4bagels

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This worked for me, too. Printed an 8.5x11 sheet front and back with the Default Preset - printed normally.

Changed to a custom preset for another print job - printed as it should.

Changed back to the Default Preset - Page 1 printed normally but page 2 on the reverse side printed "upside-down".

No amount of editing flipping along long or short edges changed the behavior.

Quitting Acrobat and reopening was the only consistent "fix" for me.

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callym26665283

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I was exporting mine as PDF from InDesign as well, and had one page randomly doing this too.

I tracked it down to one image on that particular page which had been rotated 90 degrees. I un-rotated it and it worked.

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jaukc

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same problems - easily solved in the end by ignoring any options in the Adobe print manager - just print normally, full page and use the printer driver settings to select: booklet printing; left edge binding; duplex -

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S7arlight

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I had the same problem!! Thank you for posting and thank you to everyone who suggested the short-edge binding in printer settings!! YES YES YES - SO HAPPY!

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selhartCorrect answer

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I found this article to be helpful in printing booklets from InDesign.

Guide on using Print Booklet feature in InDesign - WSA

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Anonymous

Well wouldnt you know it!

I changed the printer setting to 'flip on short edge' which dosnt make any sense, but it worked!

All the pages printed out the right side up.

Thanks everyone for your help!

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Mr. Met

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The language can seem seem counterintuitive. My digital printer uses the term front and rear for pulling a sheet. And even weirder, if front is the top of the sheet, rear is the side of the sheet when one would think it's the bottom. I'm constantly choosing front when I need rear and entering a positive # when I need a negative # when trying to align the back of a sheet to the front. Usually takes me a good 5-10 test sheets before I get good registration.

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