Two-up Printing
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I'm stumped trying to attain a certain effect in Microsoft Word for
WIndows. My company prints its manuals on ordinary 8 1/2 by 11 paper. We
use a mirrored gutter on a landscape page. What we'd like to do is print
each (odd or even) page *twice* on each page as it comes out of our
PostScript printers, with an exact copy of the page displaced to the right
half. This way, we can easily give our printer these two-up masters, they
can duplicate them double-sided, then cut them down the middle and out
comes two perfect manuals, already collated.
I imagine I might be able to enact this using embedded PostScript commands.
Am I missing something? Is there an easy way to do this two-up printing?
As an alternative, is there a way to print two facing pages on a single
landscape page? If PostScript is the way to go, anyone have this trick
laying around? 🙂
John,
In Woody Leonhard's WOPR package, downloadable from here, there is 2×4
which will print two facing pages on a single landscape page. It works with
all laserjets, deskjets and dot matrix printers so if you are not dead set
on PostScript it will do what you want beautifully.
(Vince, if you're lurking, any chance of cooking up a PS 2×4?)
–Eileen
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