How does the booklet feature work?

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5 total messages Started by Hartmut_Lemmel Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:02

#196

Author: Hartmut_Lemmel
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:02

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Hi! I'd like to print a booklet. The document source is in A4 size, the printer can handle A4 and A3 paper with automatic duplex, but it doesn't work.

* I am using Windows XP.
* I have downloaded the Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6.
* I have installed it with the the manufacturer's PPD-file. The printer is the "Oce Vario Print 2060" which is a copy machine connected to the network.
* I have configured the printer correctly (specified the paper size for each tray etc.)
* Then I select the booklet option and the symbolic preview shows a nice booklet. But the result is ordinary double sided A4 printing with one document page per paper side, and not a booklet layout.

I haven't found any option to specify the paper size. If I want to get a booklet in A4 size then A3 paper has to be used. If I want an A5 booklet, A4 paper has to be used.

I tried the same with another printer (Minolta QMS 9100) an I had the same result, just normal double sided printing.

How is that supposed to work?
Thanks for help,
Hartmut

Re: How does the booklet feature work?

#197

Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:47

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Booklet printing is not a standard PostScript feature. It is either a
special feature of your printer, or of the application you are trying
to print from.

If it is an application feature, these do not always "play nice" with
printer drivers, but I'd expect you to need to choose the double page
size in printer setup.

Aandi Inston

Re: How does the booklet feature work?

#199

Author: Hartmut_Lemmel
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:03

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      Booklet printing is not a standard PostScript feature. It is either a
      special feature of your printer, or of the application you are trying
      to print from.




Well, the booklet printing option is offered in the dialog box of the AdobePS printer driver. And I read in various news groups that AdobePS would offer this feature. But maybe it works only with special printers? Or only with the Mac version of AdobePS?

Hartmut

Re: How does the booklet feature work?

#200

Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:53

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Does it appear in all applications?  Try WordPad for instance.

There is not really any such thing as AdobePS in Windows XP, despite
there being an AdobePS installer. In Windows XP it simply installs
Microsoft's standard PostScript driver that is a part of XP anyway;
the installer gains you the ability to easily set up a printer from a
PPD.

Aandi Inston

Re: How does the booklet feature work?

#201

Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:02

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Aandi is correct. There is no AdobePS Driver for Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003. What Adobe does provide is an installer to associate the standard Windows PostScript driver (co-developed by Microsoft and Adobe, but supplied with Windows itself) with a user-provided PPD file.

There is no booklet making facility in that driver. What you may be seeing is an OEM driver plug-in, in this case provided by the manufacturer of your printer, Oce, installed whenever you installed Oce's host software package. Such plug-ins are designed to look like part of the driver. They provide user interfaces to special printer features and inject the appropriate features into the PostScript stream output by the driver.

- Dov

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