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Printing Duplexed Booklets from Adobe InDesign
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Preview the imposition
InBooklet offers a Preview Tab that enables you to view the imposition setup. This will allow you to make an necessary changes to the Layout Tab and/or Printing Tab, before any printing is done.

Click OK to continue the printing process.

Set up Print Options
Here we set what spreads to print.

In the Advanced Page Controls section, set Options to Odd Pages Only. After printing the odd spreads, place the pages back into the laser printer (making sure they are inserted correctly) and print again specifying Even Pages Only for Options.

Set Color to Composite Mode and click Print to continue the printing process.

Final output
Printing this document using the outlined sequence will result in a booklet that has copy printed on both sides of the paper. This can then be folded in half to simulate the printed piece.

When printing spreads greater than your paper size, specify a reduction scale factor.

Changes that need to be made when printing a composite vs. printing final film output is to add margins, bleeds, and to specify crop and registration marks. When printing to final film, specify Both Pages for Options.

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Greg Hatem is the product manager at A Lowly Apprentice Productions. He is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and has a degree in print technology. Greg can be reached at Greg@alap.com. For more information about ALAP, visit http://www.alap.com.

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