# Printer is stapling all my packets together **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 12, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printer-is-stapling-all-my-packets-together/676181 "2013-12-12T18:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printer-is-stapling-all-my-packets-together/676181/1 "2013-12-12T18:28:57Z")
This is a question best addressed to my own IT department of course (and it has been) but they are currently focusing all resources on the fact that _we haven’t had working email for three weeks now_. So I’ll bring it to the Dope, though I know there are likely to be lots of particulars about the situation that make it difficult for you guys to say anything for sure. Here’s the problem. Several weeks ago a new print driver was installed on my office computer. Ever since then, when I have tried to print out multiple packets, and told the printer to put a staple on each packet, what it has done is stapled _all_ the packets together with a single staple. For example, right now, I want twenty four-page packets, each set of four pages stapled together with its own staple. This should take a total of twenty staples of course. Instead what I get is a single giant eighty page\* packet, with a single staple holding it together. We are using Microsoft Word 2010, on a Windows XP machine (yes, Windows XP). I cannot see any options that would be relevant to this under “printer properties” in Word. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printer-is-stapling-all-my-packets-together/676181/2 "2013-12-12T19:00:57Z")
Printer make & model would be a good starting place. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printer-is-stapling-all-my-packets-together/676181/3 "2013-12-12T19:03:33Z")
Best info I can find: Konica Minolta 750/600 VXL Driver version 3.1.0.0 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printer-is-stapling-all-my-packets-together/676181/4 "2013-12-12T19:17:12Z")
Print \> Preferences/Properties\* \> Layout is where I see binding options for my Konica Minolta printer driver, but the printer does not do stapling, so I can’t be sure that’s where it would be for one that does. \*Varies by application. Potentially dumb question: Are you checking the “collate” feature of the print dialog? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printer-is-stapling-all-my-packets-together/676181/5 "2013-12-12T19:22:19Z")
“Collate” is checked. On mine, the “staple” option is under a tab labled “finish.” I didn’t see anything there or under the “layout” tab that I would think would affect the behavior I’m describing. Under “finish” in the “staple” section it’s basically just “do you want this stapled or not?” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printer-is-stapling-all-my-packets-together/676181/6 "2013-12-12T19:24:55Z")
Have you tried setting the number of copies in the “Preferences/Properties” dialog instead of on the main (“Print”) dialog?