About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 4/11/2007 Subject: Printing pdfs
Question QUESTION: I'm trying to print multiple copies of a pdf to our HP color printer. Is there a way to make it sort so I don't have to collate after they're printed? My printer don't show that option.
Thanks.
ANSWER: This is clearly not an Adobe Acrobat problem, as most modern printer drivers enable you to access the Printers collating feature by clicking over the "Properties" button. Sometimes there is not enough memory installed in the Printers RIP (to keep cost down), and they can't RIP the entire PDF and store it to print over and over...I guess one could duplicate the PDF, then, in Adobe Acrobat, under the under the Document Menu, select Insert Pages - for location, select After, then for Page - click over Last - do this as many times as you need, then print 1 copy. Hope this helps!
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QUESTION: The collate option is available to me except when I print pdfs, which is why I thought it was driven by Adobe. If I choose to print more than one copy at a time, it will print two page 1, then two page 2.
Thanks.
Answer As I have no idea what version of Acrobat (Reader, Standard, Pro) or what version number (5,6,7 or 8) you are using nor what your printer driver is (or even what platform you are on!)
I am at a loss as to what you see (or do not see)
This smells like an Adobe tech support call !
(and I do not work for Adobe) - but a quick search (using Google) of;
