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Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:55 20/01/2008 -0800, Allen Schaaf wrote:
A book I've been writing won't now allow me to print to my HP 5P
without an error light that says there is a problem with tray one. I'm
using OO 2.2 on XPSP2. I'm sure it is not the printer because about 5
days ago it did allow me to print two up pages. I tested the printer
by printing an e-mail from Thunderbird. Printed fine. I then printed a
single page document from OO. No problem. I even tried to print from
an earlier version. No luck I exported to a PDF and it prints once I
open it Acrobat. I saved it as a Word file and it prints fine.
What gives? Got any clues?
This is just a guess, but some printers are intelligent enough to
realise when the paper available in the tray(s) is not what is required
by the document. And they stop and ask for the right size or type of
stock. Is it possible that the paper size you have set is not what is
available in the tray? If you are printing two pages per side, there
exists an ambiguity as to whether the page size you specify is the
smaller image size or the larger paper size. Could this be the problem?
Nope, because it printed it both a single page to a sheet and two
pages to a sheet just a few days ago. I don't think the HP5P is
all that smart in any case.
The other issue is that I would like to print it in signatures - the
book is 5.5x8.5 - so that I could print page 1 on the right of one
side, page 4 opposite it to the left and on the other side page 2
would back up page 1 and page 3 would back up page 4.
If I could do that then I could make a couple of reading copies and
bind them Japanese style to make a book.
I could make it print 2 up landscape but not with the page positions
correct. Page 9 was on the left, not on the right, and page 10 printed
with page 9 instead of being on the other side of the paper behind
page 9.
This fairly straightforward in Writer, I think. Set up your pages in
portrait orientation and with the page format set to the actual size of
the image, not the size of paper that you will use - as if you were
actually using smaller paper, that is. When you print the document,
make sure that you set the *printer* to use landscape mode, and tell
Writer to print as a brochure. The brochure setting is at Tools |
Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print | Pages | Brochure, but can
also be reached on the fly at File | Print... | Options... . If your
printer doesn't do double-sided, it is here that you can also select
"Left pages" or "Right pages" as necessary.
Incidentally, I think you are wanting to print each four consecutive
pages on a single sheet,
Yes. That is correct. First sheet pages 1 through 4, second sheet
pages 5 through 8, etc.
but this is not what brochure printing does.
Instead, it prints the first two and last two pages on one sheet, and so
on - so that the sheets need to be folded as a group, not individually.
But you could obtain what you appear to want by printing four-page
sections of the document separately.
Folding a 128 page book, a 32 sheet signature, neatly is all but
impossible by hand. I guess I could break a copy of the book file
into 32 sections, but what a pain to have to do it multiple times
as edits are done.
Thanks,
Allen
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