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- digdre
I am making a small booklet, now I noticed the print booklet option in indesign, and I have some questions.
What do these options here mean?whats the difference between 2-up / 3-up / ..
and between stapled / sequential?I have pages of 15*21 cm wich alows me to print a 2pages on my A3printer, now I was wondering if it gives you the option to print verso and to put the printed paper back in the paperslot ? or how does it work?
Thanks for your time & help
- monospaced0
It's about imposition. Spreads get separated in order for the book to be printed in the correct order after folding, trimming and binding. Only the cover and center spread pages actual print out side-by-side, for example. When you go to press they print sheets that are large enough to hold three or four spreads, but no home printer can do that.
- Just select "Preview" to see what the differences actually are. And learn the difference between Perfect Bound and Stapled.monospaced
- gramme0
Stapled = saddle stitched. Sequential = perfect bound or smythe sewn, etc. (anything with a spine) that requires trimmed leaves rather than folded signatures.
In a saddle stitched piece, your pages must be in fours. In a bound piece, they only need to be an even number, although fours in that instance are the most economical as well.
The difference between 2-up and 3-up is how many signatures or leaves will fit on a sheet. This of course will depend on the trim size of the piece and the size of paper it's being printed on.
I believe the way the Print Booklet option works varies from one printer to the next. I've seen some printers, probably similar to what you have, which run the A side, and then you have to manually flip the sheets to print the B side (in commercial printing, these would be called forms, i.e. the arrangement of pages on a press sheet, which is printed one side and then either completed as a work & turn or a work & back depending on how leaves or signatures are arranged).
- digdre0
^
thanksI just tested a 8page textfile
it just prints 4sheets of paper with 2 on each..
so i don't think recto verso is possible..
I'll think i have to imprt my finished .pdf into photoshop and make custom files then...
- gramme0
I've done this before with saddle stitched brochures and it worked just fine. You shouldn't have to make custom files, otherwise there's no point in having that printer option right? I can't remember how to make it work properly, it took me some figuring too. I'll try to dig up that particular project and see if I can figure it out again.
- gramme0
OK, so I've got a 16 page saddle stitched brochure I designed last year. Note that I designed it in reader spreads, not single pages. These are the settings I used under the Print Booklet dialogue:
Pages: All
Booklet Type: 2-up saddle stitched
Margins: Automatically Adjust to Fit Marks and Bleeds
Print Blank Printer SpreadsSo when I look at it in Preview, I see page 16 on the verso side of signature 1 (side A), with page 1 recto. Side B is page 2 verso, page 15 recto, and so on. This is as it should be, so that when you collate the brochure your page numbers are arranged the way you designed them.
Hope that solves it for you.
- so i have to set 2 signatures or what is signature for anyway?digdre
- gramme0
Oh and a correction about 2-up vs. 4-up, etc: that's actually the number of pages that will print on a side of a single sheet, not the number of spreads as I was originally thinking. Got it confused with a commercial press sheet setup for a second there.
- digdre0
BTW
is it much of a difference if I:
opened a 'new document' instead of 'new book' at the very beginning?
- digdre0
ha, fuck this just messes things up
- digdre0
BUMP
- gramme0
Where did you specify a number of signatures? I don't have that option under Print Booklet.
Try locking your spreads up so your first page can be part of a spread, rather than by itself.
- gramme0
Did you try one?
- gramme0
Alsp, try checking your Print Settings. Should be landscape format for the spreads.
- gramme0
^ You ever figure this one out dig?
- digdre0
no, not really.
so I just imported it all to Photoshop and printed it 2pages per 2pages
- gramme0
I blame the Dutch.