Will you be able to duplex the 12x18? To print 11x17 booklets from Finale, first set up your page sizes.
Page Layout>Page Size = Letter File>Printer Page Setup>Page Size = Tabloid (or 11x17) --choose landscape printing orientation Finale is creating letter size pages. Your printer will print them on 11x17. File>Print In print dialog window, select: Two Sided. (it's next to "Copies" on my system) Layout: 2-up Ignore Printer Margins for N-up printing In the page range, type the page numbers as you want them to be printed on the sheet. The printer considers the left side of the page to be first to print, but in a booklet that's the last page. For a 4 page booklet, you'll want "4,1,2,3." Pages 4 and 1 will be printed on one side, and pages 2 and 3 will be printed on the other. Eight page booklets would be "8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5." (I used to have a text file with the page orders for up to 40 page booklets, but now if it's more than 4 pages, I'll let PDFClerkPro do the impositions for me.) Here's a screen shot: http://imgur.com/Gwa5eXk Then, in the same print dialog, under Layout, select Two-Sided: Short-Edge Binding. http://imgur.com/76GPvDO You may have to define some additional printer settings under Paper Feed, Paper Handling, etc., to get proper results. Each duplexing printer I've had seemed to need different settings to achieve the same output. My printer puts a little bend in the sheet after printing, due to the heat of the toner being applied. I sometimes choose "Reverse page order" so that the printer prints the document backwards. It still is correct in the booklet order, but having it print in reverse makes the bend go "inward" and it's a bit easier to staple the booklet together. This only works if your document is 4, 8, 12, or any multiple of 4 pages long. Insert blank pages into the document or add at the end as necessary to fill out the booklet. I don't recall Finale crashing, but the printer never would receive the data for a document with the incorrect number of pages. If you tell it to print page 4 first, but there is no page 4, Finale just stops processing the print queue. A PDF imposition program will add blank pages for you at the end automatically. Good luck. Hope this works for your printer. On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@icloud.com> wrote: > I have a duplexer for the Ricoh but (in another difference from the > AP2610) it does not handle any custom sizes — so duplexing 9"x12" must be > done manually. > > How do you print to booklet directly from Finale? > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > On Aug 27, 2015, at 1:51 AM, Ryan Beard <ry.squa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Depending on the size of the project, I might print to a booklet > directly from Finale. (A 4 or 8 pager...) > > Otherwise I print to PDF, then use PDFClerkPro to do the impositions. > You might check to see if Preview can do impositions. It's received a few > updates in the last couple OSes, IIRC. > > > > My HP Laserjet 5200dtn is still going strong after ten years. Good to > know that the Ricoh is available in case I need it. It's rare that the > duplexer unit will handle a large size like 12x18. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Aug 26, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@icloud.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> So after a year and a half of owning a Ricoh AP6330N, I have — somewhat > sheepishly — just today discovered it can actually handle 12"x18" paper. (I > had until now just assumed that it had the same size limitations as its > predecessor, the Ricoh AP2610, which maxed out at 11"x17". In retrospect > this was really, really dumb.) > >> > >> Obviously that is a bit of a game changer for me! I have previously > been printing on individual 9"x12" sheets and taping them using the VPC > machine. This is no longer necessary (or remotely desirable) now that I > know I can print directly to 12"x18". > >> > >> I'm curious what people's workflow is to create booklet parts on a Mac > — presumably it's best print to PDF first, then use booklet software to > assemble the 12x18 signatures? Are there apps that people would recommend > for this purpose? I have Bookbinder's Collator, but it's not the most > intelligent piece of software I've ever used. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> - DJA > >> ----- > >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Finale mailing list > >> Finale@shsu.edu > >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >> > >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
