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Booklet Printing

This section explains how to print documents and bind them in the center using the printer driver. This function is available for the PCL 5c/5e/6 printer drivers and PostScript 3 printer driver for Windows.

Magazine

Illustration of booklet (center binding)

Booklet printing precautions

  • The paper types that can be used for booklet printing are as follows:

    Plain (60 to 81 g/m2), Recycled, Special 1, Special 2, Special 3, Middle Thick (82 to 105 g/m2), Thick 1 (106 to 169 g/m2), Thin (52 to 59 g/m2), Color, Letterhead, Preprinted, Bond, Cardstock

  • When using the PostScript 3 printer driver, you can select a left-opening or right-opening layout for portrait documents, and opening to the top or bottom for landscape documents.

  • If the document contains pages with different original sizes, page breaks may occur.

  • By combining the booklet printing and combine printing functions, you can print multiple pages onto a single sheet and bind them to form a booklet. For details about combine printing function, see Combining Multiple Pages into Single Page.

Note

  • For details about setting the booklet printing function using the PCL 6 printer driver or PostScript 3 printer driver for Windows, see Edit.

  • For details about setting the booklet printing function using the PCL 5c/5e printer driver, see Setup.