On 11 Mar 2004, at 10:14 PM, Fisher, Allen wrote:
I don't have my Mac in front of me (I can't remember if this option exists on the mac without looking it up), but can you check "Ignore Margins for N-up Printing" In the print dialog?
Hi Allen,
Yes you can. But it doesn't make any difference. The Ricoh is expecting a sheet of paper 17" long, and apparently it measures from the near edge of the paper (i.e., the edge *furthest* from the bypass tray). This results in an additional 1" border along the far edge of the paper. If I could somehow get Finale to print on the near side of a 12x18 sheet (instead of the far side), then the "turning the paper around" trick would probably work. But the only way I think you'd be able to do that would be to create a PDF of every 9x12 page, and then add an extra 8" margin to the left edge of each PDF. In other words, each PDF would be a landscape-oriented 12x17 page, with the music aligned to the right-hand side of the page. (And half of the time -- for the even-numbered pages -- the music would be upside down.) I'm almost positive that would work, but it would also be enormously time-consuming and prone to human error.
Frankly, I don't care *that* much about having 12x18 booklets. I'll just cut my paper down to 9x12 sheets and use the VPC tape to bind them. (Once my VPC machine arrives, that is.)
It *is* kind of frustrating, though, that Ricoh would make a printer that is perfectly capable of *handling* 12x18 paper, but can only print on 17" of it. I'm not sure what the technical impediment is to allowing a printer to print on 18" long paper versus 17" long paper. Maybe none at all. Maybe Ricoh just want you to buy their more expensive printers if you want to print to 12x18.
- Darcy
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