how can I print 4 documents on one sheet?

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how can I print 4 documents on one sheet?

Hello,

using pages together with hp photosmart c4680 (OS X embedded driver) and was trying to print 4 documents on one sheet. For this the paper format in pages was set to "A6" (this is a quarter of A4) and after finishing writing going to printing. Now I figured to 4 documents on one paper/sheet, but i got only one in the left upper corner. Several trying with other settings wasn't successful.

Is there anybody with the same experience? Please help!

thx and regards, haschimoto-x

MacBook (13-inch Late 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), crucial 250GB SSD

Posted on Dec 14, 2014 6:09 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 14, 2014 9:48 AM in response to haschimoto-x

So you are saying you only have 1 page?

If you want the same page printed up 4 times on the paper, you will need to duplicate it 4 times in the document so that you have 4 pages.

It does what it says, the pages refers to actual pages. If there aren't any it doesn't print them.

Peter

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Answer 2

ruggiero

Level 1

140 points

Dec 18, 2014 9:47 AM in response to haschimoto-x

This number-up setting on the print dialog prints ONE document and arranges the pages of this document according your selection.

When you want to print SEVERAL documents, you could either start to shuffle printed paper and re-insert the paper into the paperfeed (error prone and might not work properly anyway), or you would have to combine the 4 (in your case) documents into one. You can do this with Pages or with Preview. In that case print each document to a PDF, then use Preview to merge the 4 PDFs into one, then print that resulting PDF with the preferred number-up setting.

Hope this explains what is going on here.

---markus---

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