InDesign Printing Wrong Page

[sarapia777]

Greetings.

I am printing a 104p book, 6x9, double sided, no facing pages (book will be spiral bound). Yesterday I successfully printed one book. Today, I tried to make a second copy, printed all odd pages, but when attempting to print the even pages, Indesign insists on beginning on P4 rather than on P2. P2 is blank and I have "print blank pages" checked but it insists on printing P4 on the back of P1. I thought I could work around it by printing pp 1-3 manually and starting the printing with P4, but now - guess what - it's printing P4, then P8. 

I am not using the "print booklet" option, by the way. 

I have deleted my print presets a couple times, also rebooted computer, InDesign is up to date.

I don't understand why it worked perfectly yesterday but not today.

Going nuts. At it for hours now.

What am I missing? 

Thank you.

[sarapia777]

Update, January 2024.

So it was almost a year ago that I had this strange issue. 

I spent hours with tech support, many more hours and wasted paper and ink trying different things, finally decided to print the first few pages manually, which worked but it was a pain.

Last week I tried creating a similar project in InDesign, brand new powerful computer, most recent InDesign update, and it happened again. I could not get InDesign to print all of the even pages. I would set it up to print all even pages and it would begin on page 8, and sometimes tell me that pages were blank when they were not (I thought blank pages may have been the issue previously so deliberately did not create any).

So - I was discouraged all over again, thinking, obviously it must be my Pro1000 - BUT accidentally I fixed it! 

I created presets for 5.5x5.5 pages - odd and even. Somehow my preset inadvertently got bumped to "Custom" - and voila, everything works perfectly. I have no idea why this is and it is probably of no consequence to anyone but myself as I have never heard of anyone else having this issue. 

So now I set up the page size, create a preset, and switch to "Custom" and it works fine, and I have no idea why. Maybe "Custom" plugs more directly into the printer's settings, where the presets in InDesign are somehow glitchy and buggy. No idea. 

[sarapia777]

I have not ruled out printing the PDF in Acrobat. I think there's something wrong in that individual file because printing from InDesign works with everything else.