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
- 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.
- Choose the A3 sheet. Click A3 in the sheet preset grid. FitPrint then lays the items out on a 297 x 420 mm sheet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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