Collate print job by color sheets? (Including booklets) ---- HELLO MR EBOT this is a question, and the answer is in a comment since you closed preventing answers to be added!!!

[pmheart6]

This might be a feature request vs a how do i do it.

My printer charges more for color pages, and its done by print job not page.

Thus, I am hoping to send two print jobs to the printer. One for the color pages, and one for the black and white pages. I’ll gladly hand collate them together for binding or insertion in a binder.

We can do Even vs Odd pages, can we please do color vs b&w?

Ideally for booklet sheets as well

Can I manually separate pages? Its not ideal as graphics are scattered throughout the document, and pages may flow forward and backwards as the document is edited. After all, the page numbering not only helps with the table of contents, but also with combining the two print jobs.

[pmheart6]

I think I finally found the answer MR EBOT @Hrbrgr It looks like I can select color pages to use a different printer tray Perhaps I’ll open this so I can add an answer.

[pmheart6]

Not !00% sure this will work for you, but its worth a try

This is not automatic, but if you only have a few pages here and there, or have blocks of pages, You can create different page styles making one be “color” and one being b&w. You’d have the best luck if you knew what printers your print service uses, and then you can install the drivers for that printer so LO can know it has x trays (of course, without having ever linked to it, It might not make the correct assumptions – if nothing else, manual feed IS an option. )

You create new page styles by hitting F-11 Once there, in version 6.2.7.1, there are 6 buttons on the right edge. the fourth one down is an “A” overlaid by another “A” called “styles”.

When you select that, along the top of that sidebar appears 6 more buttons. The fourth one over is “Page styles”

Select that , right click anywhere in the white area of the sidebar. create one called color, & under “page” the second tab, select “paper tray”.

[pmheart6]

You can also use this to print separator pages on card stock, or use different color paper for certain pages, or sections.

[ajlittoz]

Hello, I reopened your question.

I’m not sure your proposed solution is reliable. Using page styles means adding manual page breaks which defeats “natural” text flow and page allocation. Unless your color graphics are one-page sized (and even in this case), you’ll mess up document formatting, potentially leaving huge blank space before and after the graphics.

Unfortunately, there is no specific color vs. B/W flag in the file, even less for pages because pages do not exist before being composed.

I am aware of the problem because our printer provider has the same charging policy. A single color dot (nearly invisible) in a single page is enough to switch to color charge.