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CarolynToyoda
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November 1, 2016
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booklet prints every other page upside down

When I try to print a booklet, every other page prints upside down. I've set it up as f&b, short edge bind, legal/landscape, with booklet selected.

    DANIEL5FBECorrect answer
    Participant
    January 23, 2025

    I also found a separate solution because setting it to portrait didn't fix the issue for me. If you're working on a Mac, you have to go into the Mac Printer settings>Finishing>short edge binding (top). 

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    jwillisbarrie
    Inspiring
    July 22, 2026

    Thanks for the hints here - even though this is 9 years old - it helped with latest Canon Copier on Windows 11 - turning off the duplex on the copier print driver and setting page to portrait fixed the printing issue - now works perfectly for printing booklets from PDF

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    DANIEL5FBECorrect answer
    Participant
    January 23, 2025

    I also found a separate solution because setting it to portrait didn't fix the issue for me. If you're working on a Mac, you have to go into the Mac Printer settings>Finishing>short edge binding (top). 

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      nolinmilling
      Participant
      February 20, 2025

      This issue is still happening 2-20-25. I haven't printed a booklet for I'd say at least a year and ran into this problem which never happened to me until now. Thank you AceFrog for figuring this out- changing to portrait worked. I don't have a Mac, but thanks for the heads up DANIEL5FBE.

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      leeeoooooo
      leeeoooooo
      Participant
      March 10, 2022

      I tried every 'reverse' or 'flip' setting I could find. My last try was to change 'portrait' to 'landscape'. But always with the same result:
      The reverse page is upside down in relation to the front of the page.
      I really want to print this PDF as a half-page sized folded booklet but I'm out of ideas.

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        leeeoooooo
        leeeoooooo
        Participant
        March 10, 2022

        Disregard.
        I had been running the printer using Apple's 'generic PCL printer' driver with uniformly unsatisfactory result.
        I downloaded a driver from Samsung support and now that I'm using Samsung's print driver for this printer I'm all of a sudden getting good results. All better now.

         

        I know I switched to the generic driver for a reason (maybe AirPrint) but that was apparemtly to source of my problem.

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          gretchen_lyn_3813
          Participant
          September 14, 2024

          YES! This turned out to be the solution for me (Mac OS X, Brother Printer). I tried everything on this page, and it wasn't until I saw this and used the actual Brother driver instead of generic that I was able to get it to work. Thank you!

           

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            lisas77851952
            Participating Frequently
            January 19, 2021

            Thanks so much for this tip. I think I printed my document at least five times, with different settings. Choosing "Portrait" didn't make sense so I didn't change it. But when I did it finally printed correctly. Yay!

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              Techmummy
              Participant
              March 20, 2021

              Thank you, thank you!  I too thought changing to "Portrait" didn't make sense: changed it after my third attempt and bravo!

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              kobies92626965
              kobies92626965
              Participant
              October 2, 2017

              I have the same issue, but none of the solutions mentioned above are making a difference when I print from Adobe Reader on my mac.

              My printer supports automatic duplex printing, and I have followed these steps exactlym and still every second page is printing upside down and out of order:

              • Choose File > Print and select the printer.

              • Specify which pages to print:

                • To print pages from front to back, select All. (done)
                • To divide a large booklet into smaller groupings, select Pages and specify a page range for the first grouping. Print each page range separately. (I don't change this setting)

              • Click Booklet. (done)

              • To print certain pages on a different paper or paper stock, specify those pages using the Sheets From/To option. Click the Properties button and select the correct paper tray and any other options as necessary. (I don't fiddle with this option)

              • Choose additional page handling options. The Preview image changes as you specify options.

                Booklet Subset Determines which sides of the paper print. Choose Both Sides to automatically print both sides of the paper (your printer must support automatic duplex printing). (I choose both sides, because our printer is set by default to print double sided)

                My printer supports automatic duplex printing, so there has to be a way for it to print correctly without me turning the pages manually... My page orientation is set to PORTRAIT.

                THIS ONLY HAPPENS WHEN I PRINT FROM PDF, when I print booklets form Word, they come out perfectly.

                I am stuck...

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                AceFrog
                AceFrog
                Participant
                December 6, 2016

                Set your Page Orientation to Portrait NOT Landscape.  This had me going also.  This info should be in Adobe's Basic Printing Tasks page Basic PDF printing tasks, Acrobat, Reader

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                  CarolynToyodaAuthor
                  Participant
                  December 16, 2016

                  Acefrog, thank you very much for providing a solution! I appreciate your help very much! I would have never figured that out. Carol

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                    sb116
                    Participating Frequently
                    November 4, 2016

                    Hi CarolynToyoda,

                    Please confirm the workflow that you follow exactly to understand this better.

                    Also please confirm if it happens with all file and from when have you experienced this issue?

                    Thanks,

                    Supriya

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                    CarolynToyodaAuthor
                    Participant
                    November 4, 2016

                    My original document was made in ID, then exported as a pdf. I have been printing this document for years without a problem but my Brother MFC-L8850CDW was recently replaced under warranty and that’s when the trouble started.

                    I set it up to print legal, landscape, F&B, collated, short-edge binding w/o border, and I choose Booklet with both sides. The preview shows the pages in the correct orientation but the even pages all print upside down.

                    Thank you for your help!!

                    Carol

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