There are several things you have to do, starting with what Music Spirit said -- starting with creating an instrument set (L7) or a score set (L8 & 9). Same thing, two different names depending on the version you're running.
The next thing to do is to set your printer up to the page size you intend to print out on. While this may seem unrelated, it's not, as the score display you see on the screen is displayed according to the paper size! So whether you're planning on printing to tabloid (11x17) or normal paper (A3, A4) or even legal size you need to set this first. And it's best to set your printer to print at 100% and not try to scale down (or expand) the printout of your score using anything other than Logic's scaling facilities.
The next thing you should do is assign a unique staff style to each part in your score. In other words, don't use the Treble staff style, say, for two or more parts. If necessary, create duplicates of Treble, give them unique names, and then assign them to their respective parts. This approach gives you the most flexibility in setting up the spacing between parts. If you don't do this (i.e., you have two or more parts assigned to the same staff style) then changing the spacing or other attributes for one part will change the spacing on all parts that use that style. While this work OK for some scores, it won't for others.
Next, you might want to try changing the notehead size in the various score styles to 7 from the default 8. That will automatically shrink the score size down a bit but still be very readable.
Then -- the big move: adjusting the instrument set (score set) scale parameter. Adjust this for maximum readability as well as to try and get the maximum number of desired
systems on each page. Don't worry too much at this point about the number of bars per line. Oh, and to get the desired number of systems to appear as you want you'll likely also have to jockey the margins and the header space (esp. page 1) as well as the spacing values of the upper staff (the upper spacing value of its staff style) and lower staff (the lower spacing value of its staff style).
Next... use the layout tool to adjust the number of bars per line as Music Spirit suggested. Or, use the line break tool (although judging from the OS you have listed, you're still on L7 and thus you won't have a line break tool if memory serves. In that case, just use the layout tool.)
It's a complicated subject, so again, as M.Spirit suggested, crack the manual and read up on preparing the score for printout.
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