How to Print a Booklet on OSX

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• 00:00 : i've been
• 00:01 : printing out a bunch of papers recently
• 00:03 : and i didn't want to have to use so much
• 00:06 : paper
• 00:07 : so um
• 00:08 : so i decided well if i print the text
• 00:11 : smaller i could have half of a pic i
• 00:14 : have one
• 00:15 : piece of paper take two
• 00:17 : two pages right
• 00:19 : i make the text smaller
• 00:21 : but uh
• 00:22 : but then i thought well if i do that
• 00:25 : maybe i can just print them out and fold
• 00:28 : them and it becomes a little book right
• 00:31 : but in order to do that you have to
• 00:33 : arrange the page numbers in a
• 00:37 : uh in a
• 00:39 : non-standard way
• 00:42 : so in terms of a
• 00:44 : one single piece of paper
• 00:47 : what you would want is
• 00:50 : like this is just one single piece of
• 00:52 : paper what you want is page one here
• 00:55 : and then page two on the back
• 00:59 : on the other side
• 01:00 : this is not even page three
• 01:03 : this should be the second to last page
• 01:06 : should be on this side
• 01:08 : oh because you wanna fold it all
• 01:10 : together yeah there's a way to fold it
• 01:13 : which is you fold each one yeah and then
• 01:15 : you put them together then you arrange
• 01:18 : it differently
• 01:19 : yeah so so i but better yeah but if if i
• 01:22 : just wanted to stack all the pages and
• 01:25 : then fold it and have it become a
• 01:27 : booklet what i would need to do is have
• 01:29 : the last second to last page over here
• 01:33 : and then the last last page over here
• 01:35 : right right
• 01:37 : there's an option in
• 01:39 : in uh
• 01:40 : os 10 to print a booklet like that oh
• 01:44 : interesting i didn't know about it well
• 01:46 : yeah i'll just show it i don't know in
• 01:49 : what version of mac this feature came
• 01:52 : but so if you
• 01:53 : bring up the printing dialogue
• 01:56 : you the default is you print one
• 01:59 : paper per page like this
• 02:02 : yeah um but what you do is you you open
• 02:05 : up this box drop down that says preview
• 02:09 : and you change it to layout
• 02:11 : and on the layout you can actually
• 02:13 : change it to like two pages per sheet
• 02:16 : and it'll go like this
• 02:18 : you can even do four pages per sheet if
• 02:21 : you want but um but if you want to print
• 02:23 : a booklet
• 02:24 : you don't do this you you want to print
• 02:27 : a booklet you go to this bottom
• 02:30 : drop down that says two-sided
• 02:33 : and you select
• 02:34 : booklet and if you select booklet it'll
• 02:37 : fix the pages per sheet to two that's
• 02:40 : the only option
• 02:42 : and uh and it will arrange the pages in
• 02:46 : that
• 02:47 : very specific order that makes booklets
• 02:50 : work and you just print and and you fold
• 02:52 : it over and now you have a booklet
• 02:55 : interesting
• 02:58 : yeah pretty nice so i i've been using
• 03:01 : that and i have been happy about it so
• 03:03 : just want to let you know i use these
• 03:06 : little uh hair pins
• 03:08 : to clip together my booklet
• 03:12 : [Music]
• 03:13 : but you could also use like a stable if
• 03:15 : you have a stapler that's pretty long
• 03:18 : pretty large
• 03:19 : you could reach to the center of the
• 03:21 : page probably or there are other ways of
• 03:24 : binding it i'm sure