5.5x8.5 catalog printing

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Ross Cox

I'm trying to create a report that will print catalog pages, 2 pages to a
landscape 8.5x11 sheet. The pages, then, are 5.5x8.5. I've created the basic
report with the correct dimensions, but each report page prints only on the
left side of the landscape page. I need even pages to print on the other
side of the page.

Actually, it's a little more complicated than that, in that the pages need
to be paginated so that when they are printed double-sided, and are folded
in half, and then stapled in the middle, they create a booklett. So the
pages can't be printed in order.

I hope someone understands what I'm trying to describe here, and has a
source of info for me.

Ross Cox
 
There are third-party products which install as a printer that do what you
want. But, CAUTION, not every one of them works with every printer and
printer driver. I had one, for a while, with which I was happy, but got a
new Epson printer. The multi-page software thought (perhaps correctly) that
the driver was a PostScript driver and told me to get and load a different
driver. There was no different driver for Windows 2000 on the Epson site, so
I was out of luck. As a result, I am certainly not going to recommend that
product (and haven't used any other). Search at Google to see what products
you can find.

Word 2002/2003 has something that will print folded page reports, but I
haven't used it on anything more than the 4 pages that will fill one page
front and back. My recollection is that it worked, but wasn't as intuitive
as I'd have liked.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
 
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