{"id":4767,"date":"2026-05-13T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2024-10-04T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:38:17","slug":"pro-tip-space-saving-options-to-lower-the-cost-of-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2026\/05\/pro-tip-space-saving-options-to-lower-the-cost-of-printing.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro Tip: Space Saving Options To Lower Printing Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When it comes to printing your family cookbook, page count is the largest determining factor on what the cost per book will be.<\/p>\n<p>To lower the number of pages that need to be printed, you don&#8217;t always have to just delete recipes. Here are some simple formatting charges you can make to affect your page count.<\/p>\n<p>Go to Editor Activities&gt;Layout &amp; Design.\u00a0 Under Select Recipe Layout, choose any or all of these options to save space:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose Arial or Times Roman, Two Column Small for the smallest type faces<\/li>\n<li>UNcheck Print my recipes in non-continued format<\/li>\n<li>UNcheck Force recipe photos to be on same page as recipe<\/li>\n<li>CHECK Print Directions and Comments as single paragraphs<\/li>\n<li>Under Recipe Sorting, choose Print my recipes in book order &#8211; shortest to longest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another thing to do is look at your recipes that are more than one page long. We show you multi page recipes in the &#8220;recipes by category&#8221; index. There is a &#8220;*&#8221; next to the edit button of long recipes. Consider removing some of these recipes by unchecking the box by the recipe title and see the impact on page count.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/create_make_cookbook_software.asp?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Blog&amp;utm_content=Santa_July\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Family Cookbook Project<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the leading online cookbook publisher with a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed custom cookbooks. He is the author of The<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wellfleet-Oyster-Cookbook-William-Rice\/dp\/1937023990\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1954262019\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it\u2019s third printing and is an avid genealogist tracing his family back to the 1600&#8217;s.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Family Cookbook Project on<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Familycookbook\"> <em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/familycookbookproject\/\"> <em>Instagram<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Family_Cookbook\"> <em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cookbookproject\"> TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCQhNlM81feYnHTG07VN_Syw\/videos\">YouTube<\/a> and<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/cookbookproject\/\"> <em>Pinterest<\/em><\/a><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/create_make_cookbook_software.asp?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=BlogAd&amp;utm_content=BlogAd9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-wp-pid=\"4381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-418x418.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9-BlogAd.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to printing your family cookbook, page count is the largest determining factor on what the cost per book will be. 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