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B
OOKLET
PRINTING
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IMPOSITION
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Booklet printing in the Windows drivers printing allows printing of
multi-page documents with their pages ordered and arranged so
that final printed output can be folded into a booklet. Typically,
A4/Legal pages would be reduced to A5/Letter and printed side
by side on both sides of A4/Letter paper, so that the paper can
be folded into a booklet.
Since this feature prints on both sides of the page, it requires a
duplex unit to be installed in the MFP, and additional memory.
When using the PostScript driver, if you plan to print a long
document, more than about 16 pages, consider printing it in
sections of 8 or 16 at a time. This is called the “signature,” and
will avoid having too thick a stack of paper to fold to make your
booklet. Your document will then be printed in a series of
booklets which can be stacked one above the other. This is
usually a neater arrangement.
The above considerations do not matter when using the PCL
driver as the signature can be set within the driver, and a long
document can be printed directly as a series of booklets.
Note that the number of pages in a booklet is always a multiple
of four, since two pages are printed on each side of each sheet of
paper. If your document is not a multiple of four pages long, the
last one, two or three pages in your folded booklet will be blank.
NOTES
1.
To find out how much memory currently installed, print
out a menu map from the control panel.
2.
A few applications do not support booklet printing, but
most do.
