How to Fix Misalignment Issues in Duplex Printing

Maybe not helpful, and not direct, but —

• Duplex printing has always been a weak point for SOHO printers. The print management tends to be glitchy, and as the paper path/rollers wear, the flip cycle gets sloppy. If the problem is "misalignment" it may just be mechanical wear over a year ago.
• InDesign's booklet printing feature is not one of its strongest. The usual recommendation is to export to PDF and let Acrobat handle the job — but there are reports that doesn't always work well, either.
• There are just enough reports like this to make me conclude that changes to ID, OS printer support and specific printer drivers occasionally get far enough out of step that complex operations like booklet pagination/printing just don't work right. Nothing short of a set of updates to bring everything back into harmony fixes it. But, of course, making sure the print drivers are up to date and have any patches for ID/OS changes would be a first step.

Hi Hi,

The problem began a year ago, after an Adobe update, I think. I'm on a Mac running Sonoma. My Adobe is 2024. I am slow to update my computers software because it may knockparts of my studio off. But this issue is beyond just my studio. It's happening in the art college where I work as well. One day everything was fine. Then suddenly (just in time for senior projects) everything form an 8-pages booklet to a whole novel is printing misaligned. I have 2 laser copiers one a Brother, one a Xerox and both presented the issue. The Canon V6, now the V7 has the same issue. People think it's a hardware problem, but I'm not of the same opinion. Something isn't being communicated. 

I manually offset an art book and it printed perfectly aligned, but that was only a 50-pages book. No one has the time to do an entire novel. No one should have to when it was printing just fine before 2023.