General
Printers vary. The instructions for your printer will enable you to make good prints in the size and format of your choice.
Some printers have special features making it easy to print double sided (“Duplex” printers).
You do not need an expensive printer to produce a good printed book. The guidelines set out below will help you to do this
even if you have a simple printer.
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Single sided printing
Just select the format that you want- either A4 or A4 large print, press “Print this file” and let your printer do the rest. Make sure that you have plenty of paper loaded!
If you run out of paper half way through the job, most printers will let you restart from where you left off. |
Types of printer
If you want to print double sided you need to find out whether you have a standard printer, which prints the top of the sheets from the feed tray, or a “somersault” printer, which prints on the underside of the sheets. Print the free test booklet below. Turn the page over after the first print. Then print again. You will now have printed four pages. If you have two pages on each side of the sheet then you have a standard printer.
If the second print has covered the first, leaving the other side of the sheet blank, then you have a “somersault” printer. Print again, but before you do the second print simply move it from the exit tray into the feed tray without turning it over. You should then have two pages on each side of the sheet, numbered 1-4 and readable like a little book.
Once you have printed the four page booklet, you will find that it contains useful information about printing double sided and binding your ebooks. |
Print a free test booklet
This contains some further tips.
1. Print this file
2. Turn the pages
3. Print this file |
