Booklet printing on Canon IRC5180

I recently acquired a canon copier printer with all the bells and whistles except there is no user guide. It has a fiery rip. I was able to print a 4 page booklet on 11 x 17 sheet and have it fold it without the staple one time...by accident. Now when I am trying to do that I can't seem to get it to work. It prints it with the proper imposition but will not fold the sheet. Anyone have any ideas. I would appreciate any input.
Thank you
Angela

 

Thanks for the input. I was able to solve the issue.

 

The copier will fold a single sheet, still. You still have to have booklet mode "on" and have the staple option set to "saddle stitch". It will never use staples on a single sheet. You also have to make sure your document is in a single 8.5x11 page layout, in order from page 1 to whatever, to make sure the pagination works correctly.

The machine will only fold and staple up to 16 sheets. If you have images on the inside or outside of the sheet that runs across the page horizontally, it will have an 1/8 inch to a 1/4 inch white bar going down the center where the staples supposed to be. Setting the finisher to "saddle stitch" does this for some reason.

Use command workstation from Fiery's website, it's free. It's great for finishing options after the file has been ripped and stored on the server. So you don't have to keep setting everything in your application, first.

 

I downloaded Command Workstation from the Fiery website. It says it is free on the page I downloaded it from but when I print using it...Demo is printed all over my document. I've obviously missed something. Can anyone enlighten me. I've search the fiery site to no avail. Will try the forums and see what they say.
Thanks
Angela

 

Go here and fill out the information. Follow direction from there.

 

The White boarder

Hey Juice,

How you resolve the white center issue? I ran it that issue

Cheers,

Sean

 

The copier does the white margin/border on it's own. There is no way to get rid of it when you're using the saddle stitch feature. It sucks, I know. You have to run them flat on oversized sheets (12x18) because your images look like they're supposed to bleed. Then you have to cut them down to 11x17 (finished size) and run them thru a separate booklet maker machine to saddle stitch them. The process is longer, but that's the only way you can do it with projects that have images bleeding or going thru the middle of the pages, like yours.

 

Would it be possible to do this in two passes? For example print your design as full bleed on 12x18 or 11x17 with no finishing. Then load the paper again and just run a job that prints page numbers for example and set that to saddle stitch.