Printer Setup

When you print a pdf file made from a Booklet Cover or Booklet Insides you might see recommended settings appear below the Print dialog box.

There are many possible printer settings, page sizes and orientations that affect the printed pages. An exhaustive review of these is beyond the scope of these Helps.

Here are some considerations that can help you think through your situation:

When you look at the preview of, for example, Booklet Insides, what you see is what Bloom is actually going to try to print.

So for A5 paper size (in the final book), you see a series of A4 pages in landscape mode. Bloom wants the printer to print the first page on one A4 sheet in landscape mode, just like on the screen, without trying to do anything special. Then the second page on the back of that, flipping the paper on the short end so all the pages are the same way up when you fold it in half and flip through them. Then we want the printer to print the third preview page, then the fourth on the back of that, and so forth. So it is just like printing an ordinary A4 document in landscape mode double-sided. We do not want the printer to shrink it or do anything tricky (except double-sided), just print what you see in the preview exactly as Bloom sends it.

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