HELP!!!! Printing only half of document.

[Inov8desin]

I have a booklet I have created in Publisher 2007. It is sized to be 1/2 of
an 8.5" x 11" (portrait)page so I can get 2 booklets from one set of paper.
The total booklet is 32 pages (8 sheets of double sided paper).

When I print the document 2 sided (portrait), only half of the pages print.
If I print single sided all pages print. If I print double sided landscape
all pages print, however the printing is in the center of the paper and
requires substantial trimming (e.g. wasted paper).


I have modified page size, margins, etc. and the same issues seem to be
occuring.

 

[Ed Bennett]

When I print the document 2 sided (portrait), only half of the pages print.

Where are you setting the double-sided options? In your printer driver
or in Publisher?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Ed, how do you setup a booklet to print two per sheet? I have tried every way I
know how. I created a 32 page booklet, I can only get it to print pages 1
through 8 and 25 through 32. If I then try to print 9 through 24, pages 13, 14,
15, 16, 17 and 18 fail to print. If I select to print 13-18, pages 15 and 16
fail. No matter what printer, I've tried them all, Snagit, Acrobat, a couple of
HP's, with and without a duplex unit. I've saved it in Publisher 2003 (which
prints correctly) but when opened in 2007 it is a mess.

Now if I don't setup two per sheet, everything prints fine. I can create a
custom page, cut the stock first, it works okay too.

Maybe its just me, or maybe I have one of the flawed versions of Publisher.

If you want I can send you this 32 page file. It is nothing more than numbered
pages.

 

[Mary Sauer]

A p.s.
If I manually insert page numbers in the print preview
1,30,5,26,9,22,13,18,15,20,11,24,7,28,3,32
I still get a partial print. Publisher is only printing half the publication.
Maybe you or JoAnn can explain this. I am having very senior moments with this.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Ed, how do you setup a booklet to print two per sheet? I have tried every way
I know how. I created a 32 page booklet, I can only get it to print pages 1
through 8 and 25 through 32. If I then try to print 9 through 24, pages 13,
14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 fail to print. If I select to print 13-18, pages 15 and
16 fail. No matter what printer, I've tried them all, Snagit, Acrobat, a
couple of HP's, with and without a duplex unit. I've saved it in Publisher
2003 (which prints correctly) but when opened in 2007 it is a mess.

Now if I don't setup two per sheet, everything prints fine. I can create a
custom page, cut the stock first, it works okay too.

Maybe its just me, or maybe I have one of the flawed versions of Publisher.

If you want I can send you this 32 page file. It is nothing more than numbered
pages.

 

[Inov8desin]

Ed,

I am setting up the duplex in publisher, when I select "print". I have
tried going through the print menu and setting the print driver. I get the
same results.

 

[Mary Sauer]

This is how I finally got a publication similar to yours to print properly.

After the initial print, I was left with 9-24 not printing. I unchecked from the
View menu 2-page spread, I deleted the front eight pages and the back eight
pages. (Publisher will let you delete many pages at once, hold shift and select
the page sort tabs). Again I printed. I then deleted the front 4 pages and the
back 4 pages. And I printed again.

I saved each of these sections.

The last four pages I had to check two-sided and typed pages, 1,2,3,4.

If you cut your stock first and then print, all is correct. Not all printers
will duplex custom small stock.

 

[Mary Sauer]

p.s.
If you have page numbering, insert a section, start with page 9 in print 2 and
so on.

 

[Inov8desin]

Mary, thank you for the "work around".

This sounds ok for one or two off, however the booklet I am producing will
be published in the hundreds of copies. I don't believe it would be very
cost effective for the printer to perform all those steps.

The goal I had in purchasing publisher was to reduce printing costs, by
allowing the printer to put twoon a single sheet, which if properly done
would reduce cutting, printing, and thus total expense.

Sounds like I might need to find a copy of Publisher 2003 to do this work.
Unless someone else has a way to get it to work is intended in the current
release of Publisher.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I've reported this bug to the powers to be. I reported it before. I have one bug
report dated 75 weeks ago.

I opened the 32 page publication in Publisher 2003 and it printed perfectly.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Mary, thank you for the "work around".

This sounds ok for one or two off, however the booklet I am producing will
be published in the hundreds of copies. I don't believe it would be very
cost effective for the printer to perform all those steps.

The goal I had in purchasing publisher was to reduce printing costs, by
allowing the printer to put twoon a single sheet, which if properly done
would reduce cutting, printing, and thus total expense.

Sounds like I might need to find a copy of Publisher 2003 to do this work.
Unless someone else has a way to get it to work is intended in the current
release of Publisher.

 

[Inov8desin]

some additional information:

When I use the "post processing" software, I have to print from publisher
"landscape" and "single-sided" for the post processor to format the final
output "2up" and print correctly.

maybe the better question is to ask "How do I print 2 instances of the same
document on a page in Publisher?"