Sharp BP-70M55 Booklet Printing

[danny464]

I am working with a church that prints 8.5x11 and 11x17 booklets from the same file.

I've attached samples on how it is printing on 8.5x11 and how it is printing on 11x17. As you can see the top and bottom margins on the 8.5x11 are too big. the 11x17 are perfect.

The original file is a 8.5x11 document that we are converting to booklet format.

After a lot of research, it seems the 8.5x11 booklet is converted weird since the image is going from width of 8.5 to 5.5 (35.3% reduced) and the height is going from 11 to 8.5 (22.7% reduced).


My question is, is there any software that can convert the 8.5x11 original file to 5.5x8.5? Would that even work? Or is there a different way of doing this? Trying to help them avoid having to format the file twice.

[bilyahn]

We have them format the document in invoice size (5.5x8.5) that way it looks like what they want when it prints out. I haven't found anything to convert it reliably and just changing the page sizes messes with the formatting.

Good luck

Bil

[danny464]

To anyone else that is struggling with this, I ended up at avepdf and resize the pdf from 8.5x11 to 5.5x8.5. It works pretty well. Thank you Bilyahn for the help!

[ihatefinishers13]

Getting a church employee to change the way they do their church bulletin from the previous machine is difficult. It's very rare that they understand the problem, let alone their willingness to change. Having them format it in the first place the right way is the best solution. I've seen Mac's do well with formatting booklets because you can adjust it in the preview ahead of time.