: Is double sided printing a requirement to print a booklet via InDesign? I need to print a short booklet via InDesign and my document is ready. However, I'm unsure if the printer I'm gonna

@Jamie315

Printing a booklet using a printer without a duplex feature is simply a matter of printing the odd sheets first, reloading sheets, and then the printing only the even sheets.

Printer vary in how they flip the sheets from the feeder, so do a simple test booklet with maybe 3 sheets (12 booklet pages) of paper to ensure your booklet will fold properly.

The document needs to be in booklet format (i.e. printer spreads) already, and the odds/evens feature is built into most PDF readers.

See also: superuser.com/questions/481601/acrobat-reader-how-to-print-only-the-odd-pages

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@Berryessa866

Most book binding options require that one print on both sides --- if the book requires that there be text on both sides --- certainly all of the settings in InDesign assume this.

There are folding / binding techniques which will avoid that need, such as the "Stroke book" technique which I used in "One Typeface, Many Fonts": www.tug.org/texshowcase/onetype.pdf
Similarly, Chinese-Japanese-Korean stab binding allow one to print two pages to one side of a sheet, then fold them, binding the book together along the open edge so as to make a book --- this can easily be done w/o special software simply by printing 2-up (you will need to insert a page so as to get rectos to appear on the left-hand sheet).

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@Shanna688

If printing with third parties or on computers other than your own, you're actually most likely to print from a PDF generated via InDesign. Double sided printing is to be preferred obviously and this will generally be the norm for professional printers and some mid-range office printers.

You could however print single sided black & white sheets while you proof your artwork to check how things look on paper.

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