2008
adventures in printland
maura @ 4:32 pm
Or, The Incredible Shrinking Articles!
So, you know, I’m a crunchy kinda gal. At home we print nearly everything on recycled paper, by which I mean the other side of paper that already has printing on it. (Of course we buy recycled paper, too, whenever we need to buy shiny clean paper.) At work I’ve tried to do the same thing: when I want to print an article, I pop a few sheets of pre-used paper into the printer tray.
Last week I decided to take it to the next level. What’s better than printing on used paper? Printing on used paper AND setting the layout to reduce the article and print 2 sheets next to each other!
When it works out, it should look like this:
I’m not intimately familiar with the windows printing options (I have a mac at home), so I had a little trouble with the layout (“I had a little trouble with the scissors“). While my first attempt resulted in two pages per sheet, the pages were in reverse order. So I cut them apart and stapled them together to make a half-sized article, like so:
I went back to the printing options and messed around with the settings. And I thought I had fixed it, really I did. But instead, what I’d done is make the printer spew out FOUR pages per sheet, still in the wrong order!
I cut them all up to produce a charming mini-article (see my hand size for scale):
It’s like an academic zine! Conveniently pocket-sized — collect them all to share with your friends! Hard to file, though: I predict that they’ll get lost in the folders.
