C5550 MFP User’s Guide
A guide to printing > 215
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OOKLET
 
PRINTING
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IMPOSITION
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Booklet printing in the Windows drivers printing allows printing of 
multi-page documents with their pages ordered and arranged so 
that final printed output can be folded into a booklet. Typically, 
A4/Legal pages would be reduced to A5/Letter and printed side 
by side on both sides of A4/Letter paper, so that the paper can 
be folded into a booklet.
Since this feature prints on both sides of the page, it requires a 
duplex unit to be installed in the MFP, and at least 256MB of 
additional memory (512MB in total).
 
When using the PostScript driver, if you plan to print a long 
document, more than about 16 pages, consider printing it in 
sections of 8 or 16 at a time. This is called the “signature,” and 
will avoid having too thick a stack of paper to fold to make your 
booklet. Your document will then be printed in a series of 
booklets which can be stacked one above the other. This is 
usually a neater arrangement.
The above considerations do not matter when using the PCL 
driver as the signature can be set within the driver, and a long 
document can be printed directly as a series of booklets.
Note that the number of pages in a booklet is always a multiple 
of four, since two pages are printed on each side of each sheet of 
paper. If your document is not a multiple of four pages long, the 
last one, two or three pages in your folded booklet will be blank.
Windows PostScript
(Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 only)
NOTES
1. To find out how much memory currently installed, print 
out a menu map from the control panel.
2. A few applications do not support booklet printing, but 
most do.