Complete Printing Intro Guide
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File Setup [booklet & perfect binding]...........4
InDesign Booklet.............................................7
Preview & Acrobat........................................14
InDesign Perfect Bound Book.......................21
Tray Alignment..............................................23
Blank Pages Explained..................................26
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If your booklet is more than 40 pages please staple manually as the printer can not fold and staple any more than this.
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Booklet File Setup From InDesign
Always design your booklet in InDesign for the smoothest printing experience.
Please make sure you turn on facing pages and if you have full bleed images, make sure you add a bleed and print on one size up, as the printers do not print to the edge of the paper. You will ALWAYS have a white margin.
Caution:
Please make sure your document is in CMYK color profile for printing NOT RGB or the colors will be off!
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Booklet File Setup From InDesign
Set up your indesign file with a total number of pages that are divisible by 4 (i.e. 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 etc.)
Caution:
If your booklet is not divisible by 4 then blank pages will be added to compensate.
YOU CAN NOT DELETE THEM TO REMOVE THEM. THE NUMBER OF PAGES MUST BE DIVISIBLE BY 4 TO GET RID OF THIS PROBLEM.
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Perfect Bound Book File Setup
Always design your booklet in InDesign for the smoothest printing experience.
Please make sure you turn off facing pages and if you have full bleed images, make sure you add a bleed and print on one size up, as the printers do not print to the edge of the paper. You will ALWAYS have a white margin.
Caution:
Please make sure your document is in CMYK color profile for printing NOT RGB or the colors will be off!
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Printing Booklets From InDesign
Chose File > Print Booklet
Make sure this option is checked
Next look at the preview window
This means your document is larger than your selected paper size. form here you would click print settings.
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Printing Booklets From InDesign
Make sure the selected printer is the Canon C710. ALWAYS CHECK PRINT BLANK PAGES. Next click setup to select paper size.
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Printing Booklets From InDesign
After selecting your paper size, you must select your orientation. More often that not it will be landscape. Next for page position select centered. Then move on to Marks and Bleeds
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Printing Booklets From InDesign
select your marks as desired and then click page set up. Here make sure the paper size, orientation, and printer are correct.
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Printing Booklets From InDesign
Next click the printer. Here you will turn on the booklet functions for the printer. Then click the layout tab.
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Printing Booklets From InDesign
Click Fiery Features and then Full Properties
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Printing Booklets From InDesign
Click Layout, select normal, DO NOT SELECT BOOKLET, then select short edge binding. Finally click finishing and turn on saddle fold and saddle stitch. Then click print.
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Printing From Acrobat & Preview:
DO NOT CLICK THE BOOKLET OPTION IN ACROBAT. This will create a conflict in the settings.
Click Fiery Features and then Full Properties
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Printing From Acrobat & Preview:
Then launch the wizard and follow the steps.
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Printing From Acrobat & Preview:
Select your binding side. Most ofter you will choose left binding. Make sure the booklet type is saddle. Then click next.
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Printing From Acrobat & Preview:
Select which side of the cover you want printed on. Most likely you want no blank pages, so select print on both sides. Then click next.
This shows you where its printing on.
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Printing From Acrobat & Preview:
Select the paper size. Then click next.
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Printing From Acrobat & Preview:
BODY ALIGNMENT IS ALWAYS AT THE SPINE. Then click next.
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Printing From Acrobat & Preview:
Check over your summary and then click print.
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Printing Perfect Bound Books
Select your paper size and then select portrait orientation. Next for page position select centered, then click printer....
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Printing Perfect Bound Books
Click Fiery Features and then Long Edge Binding then print.
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Tray Alignment
Click Fiery Features and then Full Properties.
Caution:
You CAN NOT use this feature with booklets.
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Tray Alignment
Click the media buton on the side, then click tray alignment to turn it on.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Every canon printer can use this feature, however it will not be 100% perfect registration as the machines are made that way by default. Please account for this with adding enough bleed to the document.
Caution:
The error message it to notify you that you have selected the tray alignment option. It will default to drawer 1 every time.
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Tray Alignment
Please make sure to match the paper size with the designated drawer.
c710:
Drawer 1: US Letter
Drawer 2: US Letter [Thin paper]
Drawer 3: 11x17 [Thin Paper]
Drawer 4: 11x17
Drawer 5: 12x18
Drawer 6: 13x19
c65:
Drawer 1: US Letter
Drawer 2: 11x17
Drawer 3: 12x18
Drawer 4: 13x30
5560:
Drawer 1: US Letter
Drawer 2: 11x17
Drawer 3: 12x18
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Blank Pages Explained
When the booklet’s total number of pages are not divisible by 4, then InDesign adds blank pages to complete it. This is an example of that.
This booklet’s content was 26 pages total, which wnen divided by 4 does not give a whole number. These two blank pages would have been added by InDesign in random spots, however I added them at the end and now this booklet has 28 pages total. This will print without any issue.
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