Printing booklet odd / even pages only is greyed out

Question

I'm trying to print a booklet, but I don't have a duplex printer. When I visit Adobe's guidelines, it says:

Printing double-sided pages without a duplex printer

Use the Odd Pages Only and Even Pages Only options in either Adobe Acrobat or InDesign. After one set is printed, flip over the pages, load it in the printer, and print the rest of the pages. For best results, print a test document to see which direction and order the pages should be added to the printer.

My problem is when I try to select the option to print odd or even pages, that section is greyed out. What am I doing wrong?

Joseph III278016330laa · Answer

I'm having the same problem.  I'm printing on glossy (obviously), which means duplexing isn't an option.  Which makes the whole premise of Adobe's instructions stupid to begin wtih, but I digress...  The "solution" to only print odds and evens does not work in the slightest and just results in a single page of my documents being printed per page, rather than the entire spread (2 pages in my case).  There is no option to print only the even or odd spreads, because the sequence greys out once Spreads is selected.  Adobe should really stop trying to control how we set up our document prints and let the user decide how they want it done.  Really!!

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