42 A9 pages fit on one A3 sheet at actual size

An A9 page is 37 x 52 mm. The sheet is A3, 297 x 420 mm, a built-in preset in FitPrint. The layout below is what FitPrint produces with its defaults: Fit most packing, Original size scaling, a 5 mm gap between items and a 5 mm side margin. Nothing is scaled: each item is placed at 37 x 52 mm, its true size.

Where each item lands

Positions are millimetres on the A3 sheet as FitPrint wrote them, with y measured from the bottom edge.

x (mm) y from bottom (mm) Width (mm) Height (mm)
10.71 361 37 52
58.43 361 37 52
106.14 361 37 52
153.86 361 37 52
201.57 361 37 52
249.29 361 37 52
10.71 302 37 52
58.43 302 37 52
106.14 302 37 52
153.86 302 37 52
201.57 302 37 52
249.29 302 37 52
10.71 243 37 52
58.43 243 37 52
106.14 243 37 52
153.86 243 37 52
201.57 243 37 52
249.29 243 37 52
10.71 184 37 52
58.43 184 37 52
106.14 184 37 52
153.86 184 37 52
201.57 184 37 52
249.29 184 37 52
10.71 125 37 52
58.43 125 37 52
106.14 125 37 52
153.86 125 37 52
201.57 125 37 52
249.29 125 37 52
10.71 66 37 52
58.43 66 37 52
106.14 66 37 52
153.86 66 37 52
201.57 66 37 52
249.29 66 37 52
10.71 7 37 52
58.43 7 37 52
106.14 7 37 52
153.86 7 37 52
201.57 7 37 52
249.29 7 37 52

What other settings place

Settings Items per sheet Placed size
Fit most, 5 mm gap and 5 mm margin (default) 42 37 x 52 mm
Stack, 5 mm gap and 5 mm margin 7 37 x 52 mm
Fit most, no gap or margin 64 37 x 52 mm
Fit most, 10 mm gap and 10 mm margin 36 37 x 52 mm
Stack, no gap or margin 8 37 x 52 mm

Turned landscape, 55 fit: A9 pages (landscape) on A3 (fit most, no gap or margin).

What the status line says

With 42 A9 pages in the list, FitPrint's status line reads exactly "42 items · 1 A3 sheet". Add one more and it reads "43 items · 2 A3 sheets": the extra item starts a new sheet rather than shrinking anything.

How to lay this out in FitPrint

  1. Drag your files in. Open FitPrint and drag your A9 page files onto the window. Each file appears in the list with its size in the caption.
  2. Choose the A3 sheet. Click A3 in the sheet preset grid. FitPrint then lays the items out on a 297 x 420 mm sheet.
  3. Keep scaling on Original size. Original size places every item at 100 percent, so a printed item measures exactly what the file says it measures.
  4. Leave packing on Fit most. Fit most packs as many items per sheet as fit. With the default 5 mm gap and 5 mm side margin that is 42 A9 pages per A3 sheet.
  5. Change the gap or side margin only if you need to. The defaults are a 5 mm gap and a 5 mm side margin. The settings table on this page shows what every other recorded setting places on this sheet.
  6. Export and print at actual size. Click Export PDF, then set Scale to 100 percent and Pages per Sheet to 1 in the print dialog so nothing re-scales the exported file.

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