why when printing from ipad does document spread over multiple pages?

When I print from my Ipad mini a word document, article from an app, or a word attachment in an email it ends up spread over multiple pages with very large writing and wide margins. I cannot seem to find any articles about this online or info on how to change print settings. If using a pc and this happened I would go straight to settings but I can't seem to find anywhere to do this on the ipad. Any ideas?