With a printables business, I’m bound to receive lots of printable-related questions, one very popular question is, “How can I print more than one page on a sheet?” This works especially well for multi-page documents like calendars and planners. It’s super easy, and while all printers are a little different, hopefully my instructions will work for your printer too!
First off, you need a pdf printable to try this out – go to my free printable page to snag one to try out, open it up and come back to this post.
Start by opening your pdf document.
Go to ‘file’ and ‘print’ – just like you’d normally print a document.
Then instead of printing right away, go the multiple button and choose how many pages per sheet you’d like. (I chose 2 per page – this will make the pages A5 or 5.5×8.5.) Then select print.
Once I printed the pages, I cut them with my paper cutter, punched holes, and put the calendar in an A5 binder.
I used the 2014 Banner Calendar in the shop to demonstrate this if you’re interested.
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Have you seen my shop? It’s full of organizing printable goodness!
Wow…Thanks so much for this. I really love the smaller binders for on the go and couldn’t quite figure out how to print my own for them. This will make my life a whole lot easier.
I was wondering if you could explain how to do this when the documents are in separate PDFs? Many of your printables/kits are in individual PDFs and so,for example, if I wanted to print all the pages from your vacation kit and wanted them on half sheets, how would I make it so two print on one page? I hope my question makes sense. Thanks! I LOVE all your printables. They’ve even inspired me to make a few very specific ones for myself!
Post author Depending on your printer, you should be able to select it to print the same way and then re-load the paper but have the next print set up on the other side of the paper. I find that it’s easier to print them smaller, cut the paper and let my kids use the half-sheets scraps for drawing paper.
xo, Becky
This is exactly how I print and prepare your printables for my binders (I keep one for business and one for home). I also have the same great binder!
