Printing multiple copies in Publisher 2010

Not really notebook specific, since the problem seems to occur on my Win 7 notebook and my Win XP computer at work, but Publisher 2010 seems to handle multi-copy print jobs really inefficiently. At first I suspected it was just due to the rubbish printer where I work with its trashy generic drivers, but I've found that the same thing happens when I use other printers and even virtual printing services like Bullzip, Microsoft XPS Writer, and Send to OneNote.

Whenever I multiply the copy total on a print job in Publisher 2010 (and nothing else), instead of sending the publication to the printer once with instructions of how many copies to print, it sends each page of the publication once for each copy, so earlier today when I printed 17 copies of a 7 page publication it sent 119 pages over the school's sketchy wifi connection, and whenever the connection broke for a second, instead of picking up where it left off, it sent the job again from the beginning. In the end, I had about 60 copies of page 1, 45 copies of page 2, and six copies of page 3 before I canceled the job.

Is this just an unavoidable design flaw in Publisher, or is there something I could do to get Publisher sending print jobs like any other reasonable program? I know I could save the job as a PDF or XPS and print it from there to avoid the issue, but I always feel like that degrades the quality of the final product, and it's another step I'd prefer not to have to take every time I want to print a publication.

So, who's got my back here? Much appreciation in advance.

 

What are you trying to print...a booklet or something?

Nevertheless, check your 'Print Settings'. I believe you may have some sort of misconfiguration somewhere.

If it's not the settings, then I'll go as far as to say maybe malware?...try reinstalling Office?

PS: Collate is enabled right?

 

Ugh, long reply lost to a connection error.

Look at the bottom of your screenshot, the preview page is one of 119 - your copy of Publisher is behaving in the same way as mine. If it were Word or any other program it would be one of seven and the instructions to print multiple copies and whether or not to collate would be sent directly to the printer, but Publisher 2010 sends multiple copies of the same page as separate pages, causing a major cluster[bomb] of a print job. Aside from a question I put up last night, there's one other question on Microsoft Answers about this issue and the poster claims that Publisher 2003 and 2007 did not behave in this way, but the most helpful response is that Publisher 2010 must just be flawed. It seems like a pretty glaring flaw to introduce into an extremely mature premium productivity software, though.

No settings for printers (actual or virtual), Publisher/Office 2010, or print options seem to change this, so I'm pretty sure it's on Publisher's end, I'd mostly just like to know if there's something I can do to get Publisher printing multiple copies like any other program would, rather than this cluster[bomb] method.

 

Right, I think I see your point. M$ wins again! :sigh: