Print booklet output doesn't match preview

I think it depends on the print driver. I print via a Postscript RIP to my large format printer and don’t have any problems with InDesign printing. I also tested Print Booklet to my non Postscript Brother printer and was able to replicate the OP’s problem when I set Pages per Sheet to 2.

It‘s because you are setting Pages per Sheet to 2 in the OS Print settings. Print Booklet imposes printer spreads so you need to leave it at 1.

Do you have a option to print a booklet from you printer? We updated our printers at my work and I had the same issue. The only resolution we found was to choose print from InDesign and choose the booklet printing from our new Canon printer. We even went through Canon to try to resolve and this was the only solution they gave us.

• First I'd try changing your two-side Printer Setup setting from Short Edge to Long Edge. That would align the duplex printing to print pages in a vertical format instead of a horizontal one.
• Make sure that print spreads settings are turned off. That turns two pages in your InDesign document into one page for printing output.
• And I haven't seen the actual InDesign document layout, so please excuse me for saying this if it isn't the case. But it happens often enough that I have to ask: The InDesign document is done with separate, letter-sized pages and you haven't tried to lay out the spreads yourself, right?

If you've done all these things and it hasn't worked out, come back and let us know and we'll try other fixes that may help you. If these things don't work, please show us how your booklet pages are laid out in the InDesign document. That'd help us help you.

And I hope this helps,

Randy

Following advice in old posts in this forum, I converted the file to a .pdf and printed from Acrobat. That worked perfectly, which is great for meeting my deadlines, but I would still like to know what the problem was with printing from InDesign, and whether I made an error that could be corrected.