Booklet Printing - 2003

[Kerry Purdy]

Hi

I am sure I am being really dippy and this question will give you a chuckle
when you read it.

I have trouble when printing booklets,I have set my doc as a landscape A4
pages to be folded, all the booklet pages are to be printed on the back and
the front.

These are dance/show/theatre programmes so the outer cover paper is much
thicker, better quality paper. So, the first problem I hit is that I need to
print pages 1, 2, 15 & 16 to give me both sides of the outer cover. Then I
need to print the inside pages back to back. I get in a terrible pickle and
end up splitting the file into about 4 publisher files so I can easily print
loads of copies back to back (i don't have a B2B printer).

Is there something obvious that I have missed, am i setting my booklet up
correctly?

Thanks very much.

Kerry.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I am sure I am being really dippy and this question will give you a
chuckle when you read it.

This is a common problem and is not terribly well-designed in current
versions of Publisher. It's not your fault

These are dance/show/theatre programmes so the outer cover paper is
much thicker, better quality paper. So, the first problem I hit is
that I need to print pages 1, 2, 15 & 16 to give me both sides of the
outer cover. Then I need to print the inside pages back to back. I
get in a terrible pickle and end up splitting the file into about 4
publisher files so I can easily print loads of copies back to back (i
don't have a B2B printer).

File > Print > Pages 1 to 1, Copies (n) (unless you're photocopying, which
it doesn't sound like) > OK > No. This will print 1 and 16. Then flip and
reinsert your paper stack, removing blank sheets.

File > Print > Pages 2 to 2, Copies (n) > OK > No. This will print pages 2
and 15 on the rear of pages 1 and 16 respectively (provided you've
reinserted your paper correctly. Do a test run first with a low-quality
text-only document, e.g. with just the page number on each page, to make
sure.)

Insert some more blank paper.

Repeat all the way to page 8. The other half of the booklet will have
already been printed, as each sheet contains the page you ask for and the
corresponding high-numbered page.