Printing Situations
Stab Binding (non-French Fold)
Printing Double-Sided if the Printer Doesn’t Print Double-Sided
SADDLE-STITCH / PAMPHLET (STAPLED OR SEWN)
1. Go to File > Print Booklet
2. In Booklet Type, choose:
2-up Saddle Stitch
Make sure Print Blank Printer Spreads is checked
3. Click Print Settings and apply these settings:
Choose the printer you’re using (at the top)
Make sure “Print Blank Pages” is checked
In Setup
Centered
Landscape or Portrait (probably landscape)
In Marks and Bleed
Turn on Crop Marks
4. Click Printer (at the bottom) and apply these settings:
Click Show Details button/ down arrow and choose:
Layout
– Two-Sided: Choose which edge you want the printer to flip your paper on. Usually this is “Short Edge Binding,” but your book may be different.
5. Click Print, click Ok, and you’re back at the Print Booklet Screen. Look at the Preview and if it looks right, click Print.
FRENCH FOLD
1. Go to File > Print Booklet
2. In Booklet Type, choose:
2-up Consecutive
3. Click Print Settings and apply these settings:
Choose the printer you’re using (at the top)
In Setup
Centered
Landscape or Portrait (probably landscape)
In Marks and Bleed
Turn on Crop Marks
4. Click Print, click Ok, and you’re back at the Print Booklet Screen. Look at the Preview and if it looks right, click Print!
STAB BINDING, IF YOU’RE NOT USING FRENCH FOLD
1. Go to File > Print
2. Click Print Settings and apply these settings:
Choose the printer you’re using (at the top)
In Setup
Centered
Landscape or Portrait (probably landscape)
In Marks and Bleed
Turn on Crop Marks
3. Click Printer (at the bottom) and apply these settings:
Click Show Details button/ down arrow and choose:
Layout
– Two-Sided: Choose which edge you want the printer to flip your paper on. Usually this is “Short Edge Binding,” but your book may be different.
4. Click Print, click Ok, and you’re back at the Print Booklet Screen. Look at the Preview and if it looks right, click Print.
Create a Postscript File and Print from a different computer than you’ve been working on
Sometimes you might need to print your book elsewhere, or you might be working on a laptop and need to print in the lab. In those situations, it’s always good to start with a close to your final desired result as possible (so other people have less chance to mess up your prints).
If you’re printing a book, you often can’t just save to a PDF the same way you normally could. So, here’s what you do in that case:
1. Go to File > Print Booklet
Choose settings appropriate to your binding type
(see French Fold or Saddle-Stitch instructions)
2. Set other Print Settings
In Setup
Centered
Landscape or Portrait (probably landscape)
In Marks and Bleed
Turn on Crop Marks
3. Choose Postscript Printer from Printer
When you choose Print, it will ask you where to save the file
4. Open that file in Preview (double click and it should automatically open in Preview)
5. Choose File : Print and follow the final printing steps for either French Fold (steps 4-5) or Saddle-Stitch (steps 4-9)
If you’re not able to print from Preview (if you’re on a PC), open your file in Preview and save it as a PDF. Take that PDF to the computer you’re going to be printing on.
Print Double-Sided (if the printer won’t print double-sided)
- Follow the instructions for printing whichever binding method you’re doing.
- Click the Setup button in the print dialog box.
- Click the middle dropdown box in that window (may say Layout or Preview or something similar) and choose Paper Handling
- Where it says Pages to Print, choose Odd Only
- Take out your pages. Figure out whether you need to flip them or not and put them back into the printer (either in the manual tray or in the regular tray)
- Go through the process again and click the Setup button
- Go to the Paper Handling dialog box
- Choose Even Only
- Print!
That should be it!