A booklet is a small book. It has a particular layout, and is printed on both side so that when folded it reads left to right, front to back.
By printing both sides and folding in the center you can fit 4 pages on a single piece of paper.
Just be sure your font is big enough to still be legible.
So you print this layout:
And then you can fold it into this booklet:
Nice! Getting the layout right can be tricky, which is where this
tool comes in handy. Keep reading the instructions to learn more.
It's just two pages per sheet in portait mode. If your printer supports double sided printing then you don't need to use this utility for two column layouts.
In the print options just select portait mode and double sided printing, two pages per sheet.
The problem is trying to do this double sided with a printer that doesn't support double sided printing.
This utility is designed to allow you to print double sided with a simple single-sided printer.
Read these instructions carefully. To help with double sided printing for printers that don't have this feature, this utility will split the job into a front print and a back print. Depending on how your printer feeds the paper through you may have to flip the entire stack over.
But if it feeds the pages something like this then you need to flip the pages over yourself:
If your printer supports double-sided printing you don't need to worry about feeding the paper back in.
When printing the two column layout from the test-page you final results should look like this:
Be sure to set your printing options correctly. Both booklet and two-column use these same settings:
If your printer feeds the paper though like this you don't need to flip the stack over, just feed them back in:
But if it feeds the pages something like this then you need to flip the pages over yourself:
You should print a sample page to make sure everything is working as expected.
Don't waste 12+ pages with a full print! Instead download the test page, upload it to this utility and practice printing it to make sure you've got things figured out. This way your mistakes only take two pages each time. Download Test PDF When printing the booklet layout from the test-page you final results should look like this: