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ElizabethGailLittle
ElizabethGailLittle
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May 12, 2020
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Half-page booklet

  • May 12, 2020
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I have a 12-page half-page booklet.  Everything looks good on screen.  Content of pages is centered.  Then I need to print.  If I Print Booklet from Indesign, everything's centered, but outsides of the double spreads are upside down from the insides.  If I export ro pdf & print, everything faces the same way, but the margins on the fold side are about 1/3 that of the cut side.

 

I love using InDesign to design my booklet, but I set it up as a Print job, and don't understand why I can't get it printed properly.  Help, please!

 

Thanks!

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I am not using bleed or crop in the document.  My page size is supposed to be half the sheet size and prints that way as booklet from InDesign.  I followed your link for HP, but apparently there is no driver available.  The printer is 4 years old.  I'm attaching screen shots I used for printing as booklet from InDesign.  All is good but reverse sides of paper are upside down and I can't figure out how to print only 1 side at a time, which would solve the problem very easily.  I'd like to specify print spread, but that option is grayed also.

 

When I exported to pdf, everything was a mess.  Page 1 fine.  All others showed 4 pages per paper side!!!

 

Thanks for your help - I need it & appreciate it.

 


I followed your link for HP, but apparently there is no driver available. The printer is 4 years old.

 

I was able to download it—the latest driver was posted 12-2019. There’s also a recent Firmware update.

 

Make sure you click the + symbol to get to the Driver download link. InDesign does work best with postscript drivers where there is a PPD installed:

 

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Luke Jennings3
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Luke Jennings3Community Expert
Community Expert
May 15, 2020

If the outsides are upside down, that suggests your print settings are wrong, however, printing a PDF from Acrobat is usually preferred over printing directly from InDesign. Print booklet from Acrobat should be working as long as your PDF does not have crop marks or inside bleed, If you need bleed and cropmarks, there is a work-around, here is a link to a related discussion:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/booklet-and-bleed/m-p/9737476?page=1

    ElizabethGailLittle
    ElizabethGailLittleAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 15, 2020
    Printing from Acrobat works great! EXCEPT - centered pages have a small
    margin on fold side and large margin on cut side. When I print from
    InDesign, margins are great but alternate pages upside down. I was told it
    was a printer driver setting. Didn’t know how to do that. Followed advice
    from someone & called what I thought was HP support. Computer hacked,
    credit cards now cancelled, charges pending, had to scrape the computer.
    If it is a driver setting, PLEASE, someone, tell me how to get to it and
    fix it!
    Thanks!
    Luke Jennings3
    Community Expert
    Luke Jennings3Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 19, 2020

    OK - I've got it, finally, almost.  I exported as single pages.  Acrobat prints fine as booklet.  However, I have content in frames on each page, CENTERED on the half-page.  Acrobat puts the same margin between the pages as on the outside, so when pages are folded to make the booklet, the margin at the fold is HALF that at the cut edge.  I find this unacceptable.

     


    Your printer cannot print to the edge of the page, so it always will include a border around the outside edge of the sheet, I think this is where the extra white margins originate. Try printing to booklet at 100%, do not select "fit to page". And double check the PDF page size to confirm it is 5.5 x 11.

    Also, at the risk of stating the obvious, the size of the border will be doubled in the spine.

     

      Mike Witherell
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      Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 15, 2020

      Setup your document as 5.5 x 8.5 portrait with facing pages. Make 12 pages in "Readers Order" imposition without trying to make a sorting of pages physically. Print Booklet will re-order the 12 pages into the correct "Printers Order" imposition.

      Mike Witherell
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