{"id":4784,"date":"2025-06-04T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:50:55","slug":"pro-tip-ways-to-lower-price-of-a-printed-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2025\/06\/pro-tip-ways-to-lower-price-of-a-printed-cookbook.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro Tip: Ways To Lower Price Of A Printed Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">To save pages\u00a0<\/span>lower the cost of printing<span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, go to Editor Activities&gt;Layout &amp; Design.\u00a0 Under Recipe Layout, choose any or all of these options to save space:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Choose Arial or Times Roman, Two Column Small for the smallest type face and \u00a0ingredients that will take up less space<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">UNcheck Print my recipes in non-continued format. This has to do with the flow of recipes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">UNcheck Force recipe photos to be on same page as recipe. Forcing a photo to be on the same page as the recipe results in more white space on the recipe prior.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">CHECK Print Directions and Comments as single paragraphs<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Under Recipe Sorting, choose Print my recipes in book order &#8211; shortest to longest<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also consider removing long recipes. Also make sure you are not formatting your cookbook at 8 1\/2 x 11 size.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To save pages\u00a0lower the cost of printing, go to Editor Activities&gt;Layout &amp; Design.\u00a0 Under Recipe Layout, choose any or all of these options to save space: Choose Arial or Times Roman, Two Column Small for the smallest type face and \u00a0ingredients that will take up less space UNcheck Print my recipes in non-continued format. 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