Available In: TicketBench Enterprise.
TicketBench allows you to print collated booklets. Instead of designing and printing a different project for each page of the booklet and then hand sorting them, you can design each page of a booklet and print them so they are already sorted and ready to be cut and stapled.
Create a new project by clicking on the File menu and selecting New Project.
Set up the desired page layout.
The workbench should contain a blank ticket with the proper layout. Design the first page of your booklet on this blank ticket.
You can add additional pages to the booklet by clicking on the Booklet menu and selecting New Page. A window will open and ask you what the title of this page should be. The title should be something meaningful (e.g. 'Coupon - Elk River Systems'). Press the OK button.
The workbench should contain a blank ticket with the proper layout.
Repeat steps four and five to add additional pages to the booklet.
Note: Each page in a booklet will have the same layout.
Each page of a booklet is designed normally; Text, Serial Numbers, Images, and all the other objects are used just as they would if you were designing a single page of tickets. You can switch between booklet pages by clicking on the Booklet menu and selecting the name of the page from the list. If your booklet has more than ten pages, you may need to click on the More Pages option to open a window containing a complete list of pages. Select the page you would like to work on then press the OK button.
If you need to have variable data such as a Serial Number, Random Number, or Imported Data appear on each page of the booklet with the same value, just make sure the properties for each variable data element are the same. For example, if you add a Serial Number to each page of your booklet with the same start number and the same increment, each page of the booklet will contain the same numbers when it is printed.
You can preview a booklet the same way you would preview any other project. Click on the File menu and select Print Preview to open the Print Preview window. Inside this window, you can switch between pages in the booklet by selecting the page you would like to view from the drop-down list of page titles. Everything else is the same as a normal print preview.
Printing a booklet is almost exactly like printing a single page project. Instead of entering the number of pages you would like to print, you need to enter the number of booklets you would like to print. Your printer will print the requested number of booklets, collated and ready to be cut (so if you printed 10 booklets that each contained three pages, the printer would actually print 30 pages - the first three pages would be the first booklet, the next three would be the second booklet, and so on).
An additional option is available when printing a booklet instead of a single page project: the ability to specify which booklet pages you would like to print. Inside the Print Booklet Pages list, highlight all the title of each page you would like to print. This is useful when a single page of a booklet needs to be re-printed due to a printer malfunction. By default, all pages are selected.