US Legal Paper Size is 14 inches long, Philipppines Legal is 13 inches long!
I've been trying to print some Government Papers using the "legal" format and found it frustrating that the US Legal setting on my mac is actually 1 inch longer than the Legal paper I purchased in National Bookstore.
This is one of the more ordinary problems encountered by people like me - who work at home. Most systems (even my mac) is set to US standard paper sizes. I tried both MS word and MAC OS X pages and they're both exceeding the paper when printing.
I took a ruler and measured the legal paper I got and found out after around 50 pages wasted that Philippines Legal is 8.5 inches x 13 inches. Add to the fact that my mac is set up in centimeters so I had to do conversions using Dashboard. (It's 21.59 cm x 33.02) and the US Legal setting in the Page Setup in Pages (You'll need to select Custom Sizes)
Before you follow my step by step on how to print philippine legal papers using your printer, you must google your printer MODEL number to find out if it can print paper that's 13 inches long. If it's an old printer, it probably can't. 13 inches is longer than A3, longer than bond w/c is 11 inches long.
So here's the step by step in changing the paper sizes in Mac OS X Pages (or in other mac ox s printing apps)
Go to File - Page Setup
Then select Page Size
Then long list of paper sizes will appear. You select Manage Custom Size
Philippines Legal Paper Size:
21.59 cm x 33.02 cm
8.5 in x 13 in
And it's not A4 or Short Bond (US Letter).
Important note: Make sure you have enough MARGINS (top, bottom, left and right) or it won't work!
Here's my setting:
Thanks to MintPrintables and the Apple Community for their help
Update: It didn't work on my ageing HP 1280 printer, apparently it can't print 8.5 in x 13 inch paper so I did a work around instead. Stay tuned for the work around. OR may be you have other ideas? I'm wasting too much paper already I'm blaming Seth Godin's Resistance for this.
