2-sided 4-up page printing

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:46 pm

I have installed Ocean Mind 1.5.1.4 on Windows Millenium Edition and want to do 2-sided 4-up page printing. I have a Minolta-QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer. My pages are Custom 4.25" by 7" portrait orientation and will be printed out on Legal, 8.5" x 14", paper. I want the 1st sheet to be printed with the following pages in this order: 4,1,8,5,2,3,6,7. The next sheet should then be printed with the 1st sheets pages each increased by 8: 12,9,16,13,10,11,14,15. This would continue until all the pages get printed. Is there a way to print like this with one side of all the sheets being printed, then the printed stack of sheets is put back in the printer to print on the blank backside so all the pages are printed in 2 unattended passes by the printer?

Post by **admin** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 5:31 pm

I am sorry but the only way to achieve such a custom page order, is to reorder pages in the document manually.

Post by **Robert** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:34 pm

arr242 wrote: I have installed Ocean Mind 1.5.1.4 on Windows Millenium Edition and want to do 2-sided 4-up page printing. I have a Minolta-QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer. My pages are Custom 4.25" by 7" portrait orientation and will be printed out on Legal, 8.5" x 14", paper. I want the 1st sheet to be printed with the following pages in this order: 4,1,8,5,2,3,6,7. The next sheet should then be printed with the 1st sheets pages each increased by 8: 12,9,16,13,10,11,14,15. This would continue until all the pages get printed. Is there a way to print like this with one side of all the sheets being printed, then the printed stack of sheets is put back in the printer to print on the blank backside so all the pages are printed in 2 unattended passes by the printer?

Hi, arr242!
You could specify 4 pages per sheet side and 1-sided printing, then enter "4,1,8,5,2,3,6,7" in the Print Range "Pages" box and print this first batch.
Then, still in the 1-sided printing mode, you could enter "12,9,16,13,10,11,14,15" in the "Pages" box, turn the stack of printed pages over, and print the backside.
This would not be totally "unattended" but it would only involve entering the page numbers for the backside half-way through.
Cheers,
Robert

Post by **admin** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 12:11 am

You could also specify the complete page order in the Print Range "Pages" box of the "File | Print" dialog:

4,1,8,5,2,3,6,7,12,9,16,13,10,11,14,15

Then enable the two-sided printing, and print "4 pages per sheet side".

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:44 am

I wanted to avoid that approach as I would be printing 100s of pages. As an alternative, is there a way to call Ocean Mind and have it print a specified set of pages in 2-sided 4-up mode? I could then get a small program written to repeatedly call Ocean Mind to print each sheet of paper separately.

Post by **admin** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 11:56 am

I am sorry but with the current set of options this is impossible.

Post by **admin** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:28 am

arr242 wrote:I ... want to do 2-sided 4-up page printing.

If you want to have the following page order for Side A of Page 1:

4 1
8 5

and this page order for Side B of Page 1:

2 3
6 7

this looks like a booklet printing but with 4 pages per sheet side.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 10:48 am

You have it exactly. The end result will be a paperback book of pocketbook size, the goal being the pocket size.

Post by **admin** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 8:59 am

The next release of Atlantis Ocean Mind will allow to print booklets “4 pages per sheet side”, “8 pages per sheet side”, and “16 pages per sheet side”:

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