Booklet Printing

You can print booklets with your regular printer without installing any extra plugins, and even if your software does not have booklet support.

Preparation

  1. Make sure your document's page count is divisible by 4, i.e. it contains 4 or 8 or 12 or ... pages. If not, add empty pages.
  2. Select the page count of your document:
  3. Does your printer print double-sided?
  4. Is the language read left-to-right (usual) or right-to-left (Hebrew, Farsi etc.)?

Printing

  1. Set your printer's "pages per side" setting to 2.
  2. Set your printer's "2-sided" (duplex) setting to "Short Edge", "Short Edge Binding", "Flip" or similar.
  3. Print pages in this order:
  1. Set your printer's "pages per side" setting to 2.
  2. Print these pages first:
  3. Flip the printed pages and put them back into your printer.
  4. Now print these pages: