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To download the booklet, click the link on the left. But, before attempting to print the booklet you should read the notes below.

Printing the booklet correctly involves:

• keeping the correct front and back sides on each sheet, and
• fitting each side on the paper, within the limits of your printer's margins, so that the fold point is the same on each side.

1. Keeping the correct front and back sides of each page together

   If your printer has an automatic duplex feature, enabling you to print on both sides of the paper without manual intervention, this is easy. Just turn the feature on, set to flip on the short edge (this should be the default for a landscape document), and print the whole document.

   If you printer has a manual duplex feature, giving you hints on how to produce a double-sided book, just turn the feature on, print the whole document and follow the instructions given by your printer's software.

   If you printer has no duplex feature, you will need to print the even sides and the odd sides separately, probably turning the paper over in between. However, there are details that depend on the path of the paper from the supply tray to the printing position and onwards to the output stack.

   The printer prints on	The printer stacks pages	First page printed of second run is	Last page printed will be	Instructions
   Top face of top sheet in supply tray	Printed face up	Page 2 on reverse of first page of first run	Last page	Print the odd sides in ascending order, turn the printed output over end-to-end and put it in the supply tray (printed face down), then print the even pages in ascending order.
   Top face of top sheet in supply tray	Printed face down	Page 1 on reverse of last page of first run	Last odd page	* Print the even sides in reverse order, put the printed output in the supply tray (printed face down), then print the odd pages in ascending order.
   Underside of top sheet in supply tray	Printed face up	Page 2 on reverse of last page of first run	Last page	Print the odd sides in reverse order, put the printed output in the supply tray (printed face up), then print the even pages in ascending order.
   Underside of top sheet in supply tray	Printed face down	Page 1 on reverse of first page of first run	Last odd page	* Print the even pages in ascending order, turn the printed output over end-to-end and put it in the supply tray (printed face up), then print the odd pages in ascending order.
   * These instructions suit most double-sided landscape printing tasks when used with a printer with paper-handling characteristics to which they apply. The other instructions work only for documents with an even number of sides.

   The instructions make the assumption that your printer takes each sheet from the top of the supply tray and puts printed pages on the top of the receiving stack, always feeding a short edge first. Most printers are like that. If yours is different you will need to interpret the words "top" and "end-to-end" logically instead of literally.

   You may need to carry out a test print using a sheet printed Top Face on one side to discover how the printer uses paper from its supply tray.

2. Fitting the print to the page

   The document has been designed with sufficient surrounding space to print on most printers by specifying zero margins and without resizing. Your system may warn you about insufficient margins but it is probably safe to proceed without increasing them. Try printing one page from the body of the document first, and check that the folding line is in the centre of the page if you are unsure whether or not it will work,

   Printers which require greater margins can cause trouble. The simplest solution will involve one or more of the following:

   • Allowing the margins to be increased to the suggested minima
   • Requesting that the print be centred on the page
   • Requesting that print be adjusted to fit the page.

   Unfortunately, although may produce an acceptable result, it may produce a smaller image on each page than necessary, or a folding point that is not in the centre of each page. To fix these problems you may need to do one or more of:

   • Use print settings suitable for a larger paper size than the one you are using
   • Use smaller margins, not necessarily balanced on each side
   • Adjust the resizing from the default values needed to fit the page.

   Do not print the whole document until you are confident that two consecutive pages from the body, printed on both sides or placed back-to-back, are acceptably aligned, with all the text visible.