Blank Pages in Flier

[PublisherRookie]

I produce a monthly sales flier for the company that I work for. This coming
month, my flier is 10 pages. I have it formatted as a booklet, 8.5x11,
landscape, with a paper size: tabloid. However, when I go to print the flier
on our color printer, it produces 2 blank pages between pages 5 and 6. I've
tried changing the settings to 4 17x11 inch sheets, landscape, with a single
fold to 8.5x11 inches and stapled, but I have the same result as I started
with before.

Any suggestions? I dont want to produce the flier with 2 blank pages in
between.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I produce a monthly sales flier for the company that I work for. This
coming month, my flier is 10 pages. I have it formatted as a booklet,
8.5x11, landscape, with a paper size: tabloid. However, when I go to
print the flier on our color printer, it produces 2 blank pages
between pages 5 and 6.

Unless we delve into the strange universe of one-sided planes, then there is
no way to arrange 10 8.5x11 pages onto 3 tabloid pieces of paper without
leaving two 8.5x11" areas blank. Publisher will put the blanks at the end
of the print job, unless you tell it to do otherwise.

Publisher DOES warn you of this when adding pages. You should always create
pages in groups of four, just as Publisher tells you, precisely for this
reason - if you don't, Publisher adds whitespace that you didn't ask for.

Add two blank pages at the end of your file, and the blank pages will be at
the end of the booklet instead of the middle. Or fill up two extra pages of
content. Your decision.

 

[PublisherRookie]

Thanks Ed. Your response makes alot of sense and I added 2 more blank pages
at the end of my publication. Thanks for the help.