At 14:55 20/01/2008 -0800, Allen Schaaf wrote:
A book I've been writing won't now allow me to print to my HP 5P
without an error light that says there is a problem with tray one.
I'm using OO 2.2 on XPSP2. I'm sure it is not the printer because
about 5 days ago it did allow me to print two up pages. I tested the
printer by printing an e-mail from Thunderbird. Printed fine. I then
printed a single page document from OO. No problem. I even tried to
print from an earlier version. No luck I exported to a PDF and it
prints once I open it Acrobat. I saved it as a Word file and it prints fine.
What gives? Got any clues?
This is just a guess, but some printers are intelligent enough to
realise when the paper available in the tray(s) is not what is
required by the document. And they stop and ask for the right size
or type of stock. Is it possible that the paper size you have set is
not what is available in the tray? If you are printing two pages per
side, there exists an ambiguity as to whether the page size you
specify is the smaller image size or the larger paper size. Could
this be the problem?
The other issue is that I would like to print it in signatures - the
book is 5.5x8.5 - so that I could print page 1 on the right of one
side, page 4 opposite it to the left and on the other side page 2
would back up page 1 and page 3 would back up page 4.
If I could do that then I could make a couple of reading copies and
bind them Japanese style to make a book.
I could make it print 2 up landscape but not with the page positions
correct. Page 9 was on the left, not on the right, and page 10
printed with page 9 instead of being on the other side of the paper
behind page 9.
This fairly straightforward in Writer, I think. Set up your pages in
portrait orientation and with the page format set to the actual size
of the image, not the size of paper that you will use - as if you
were actually using smaller paper, that is. When you print the
document, make sure that you set the *printer* to use landscape mode,
and tell Writer to print as a brochure. The brochure setting is at
Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print | Pages |
Brochure, but can also be reached on the fly at File | Print... |
Options... . If your printer doesn't do double-sided, it is here
that you can also select "Left pages" or "Right pages" as necessary.
Incidentally, I think you are wanting to print each four consecutive
pages on a single sheet, but this is not what brochure printing
does. Instead, it prints the first two and last two pages on one
sheet, and so on - so that the sheets need to be folded as a group,
not individually. But you could obtain what you appear to want by
printing four-page sections of the document separately.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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