I work for a commercial print shop, and we print booklets all the time on our C75 digital press. I have a 24-page booklet created in InDesign. By 24-page I mean the pages number 1-24 including covers, printing on 6 sheets of 11x17 paper, 2-sided, which we booklet-fold and saddle-stitch. Document page 1 has the spread for 24/1; page 2 has 2/23; page 3 has 22/3; page 4 has 4/21; etc. This is how I always layout a booklet. But when I print this booklet two-sided and set it to booklet fold (outside) and staple center (saddle-stitch), the pages come out in the wrong order.
The booklet ends up in this order:
1, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, blank(23), blank(2), 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 24
Pages 22 and 23 are blank, so it's hard for me to tell which is which. I think I have it correct above, but it could be 2 then 23.
The thing I don't understand is that the booklet is mostly printed in opposite order, but not completely. The outside of the covers print where they belong, but the insides print in the middle of the booklet. And every other page in the book prints in reverse order.
I've printed this booklet before with no troubles. I'm thinking there must be some little step I've forgotten, or some setting that got changed I overlooked, but I keep going over it and it never prints right. I literally print booklets every week, so it seems odd I'd forget something, but I don't know what else it could be.
Thoughts on what I might have missed? Is it a printer thing or operator error?
