INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRINTING A BOOKLET IN ID.

The pages that you view in InDesign will not print in a book form, unless you tell InDesign to create a booklet. Below are the instruction for printing your ID document:

Opening the Print Booklet Window

With the ID file open Go to: File/PrintBooklet

1) A window will appear giving you several options to adjust your final output:



2) For a standard half letter document that you plan to fold and staple or stitch, under Setup (Fig A) choose Style pop menu 2-up Saddle Stitch (Fig B). (See Indesign Help: Printing/Printing Booklets, for help with page configuration.)

3) Under Margins (Fig C) Choose a 0 inch margin if you want to have your design end at the edge of the trim section. (See InDesign Help for a detailed explanation of the Margins, Gap, Bleed…etc.)


Pre-viewing Spreads before printing
(A spread is all the pages that will print on one side of a piece of paper.)

a) To pre-view a spread, highlight Preview (FIG A). The preview window will appear.

b) Click the left and right arrow keys (FIG B) to scroll through the spreads. (The page number will appear and so will a sketch of the context of each page.



c) If the spreads are not properly aligned with the pages, then click PrintSettings (Fig C-above)

View and Adjusting the Print Settings

a) With the Print window open, highlight Set up (FIG A) and choose the correct Orientation (FIG B)



e) Under the print window you can make other adjustments, as well, to custom fit you booklet. (Remember it is usaully better to do this to the original document.)

f) When finished Click OK (This will bring you back to the PrintBooklet Window)

Printing your spreads

If you are printing on a printer, which will NOT let you print double sided, you will need to manually flip over each Spread and reinsert it into the printer.

a) Remove all, but one piece, of paper from the manual feed tray, on the left hand side of the printer.

b) From the PrintBooklet window click "Print". Page 1 and 8 will print on one side of the paper.

c)Flip and reverse the paper in the manual feed tray. 2 and 7 will print.

d) Repeat the process for all of your pages.