I’ve got an HP color laser printer. Yesterday, I had to make 440 copies of an InDesign document that I’d created. Printing from InDesign has in the past produced unexpected results, so I exported the file from InDesign as a PDF, opened it in Acrobat Pro, and printed one copy from there. It looked fine.
Full of confidence, I printed 100 copies from Acrobat. The document was a single double-sided page, and the prints had the first page printed on both sides.
Oops.
I tried printing from HP Smart. That worked fine, but the writers of that program, in their infinite wisdom, have limited the number of copies you can print to five. So I went back to Acrobat, and started increasing the number of copies in the print dialog box. I got up to 50 and everything was fine, so I printed all the copies 50 at a time.
Strange.
One other thing. When the printer runs out of paper, Sequoia doesn’t know when you’ve loaded the paper, and won’t print to the printer even after it’s full of paper. The workaround is to print a page of anything from HP Smart. Then Sequoia’s print queue software is happy.
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