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Printing a folded booklet in duplex on a non-duplex printer in Publisher 2003
For whomever might benefit from this.
I needed to print a simple 4-page folded booklet on a non-duplex printer. That meant I needed to print pages 1 and 4 on one side of a sheet of 8.5x11 paper, and then print pages 2 and 3 on the other side. Folded, I get 4 pages on one sheet, neat! Publisher made it easy to produce the document (my Christmas letter for this year), but when it came time to print samples, I had a dilemma. I want to print it as described above, but nowhere I could find did it say how to do that. In the discussion part of which is quoted, below, utilities and add-ins were recommended, and as seems often to the be the case, this was termed a printer issue, not a Publisher one. Well, it's not a printer issue. In fact, it has nothing to do with the printer. Publisher can do this, although it took trial and error to figure out how. Here's how: when you print, you can't say "print page 1 and 4" or print "page 2 and 3" like you can in other apps. Whether doing that is logical or not, that's the way other apps do it and so it would make sense to allow that. Publisher doesn't. What it DOES do, however, is ask you an obtuse question when you tell it to print, for example, just page 1. When you do that, it asks you a question. If you look closely at the question, you'll see that if you answer NO, Publisher will, in our example, correctly print pages 1 and 4 on the sheet just as you'd want. So, you can print the first 100 pages of the duplex Christmas letter (in my case) by telling it to print page 1 and answering NO, thereby printing pages 1 and 4 on the same side. Then take them out of the printer, put them back in upside down, and print page 2, and answer NO, thereby printing pages 2 and 3 on the other side. Done! This is terribly obtuse, and I'm guessing anyone really familiar with Publisher would say "of course it works that way", but for a new user, this simple ability was very difficult to come by. Fortunately, I figured this out before I spent a bunch of money on printing software as was suggested, or burned very many more brain cells. I hope this post helps someone else. Cheers, Don -- 1. Mary Sauer Feb 7, 11:51 am show options Newsgroups: microsoft.public.publisher From: "Mary Sauer" - Find messages by this author Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:51:13 -0500 Local: Mon, Feb 7 2005 11:51 am Subject: How do I duplex print in publisher on a desktop printer? Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Does your printer has a duplex unit? Are you waiting for Publisher to tell you to turn the page over? If you have duplex capabilities, then check with the manufacturer's web site for an updated driver. This is a printer issue not a Publisher issue. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "mraymond23" wrote in message ... - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have a 60 page booklet to print on my laser printer. I want it two sided but can't print duplex via Publisher. I can print duplex from Microsoft Word just fine. Help! |
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