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PC, LrC 14.1.1, Print Module, lower left corner: I only have one button PAGE SETUP, and that opens up the (incorrect) Print Setup dialogue box. On a MAC there are TWO buttons, one "PAGE SETUP" and one "PRINT SETTINGS" I only have the one button, and it opend up the incorrect dialogue box, which is a probkem, because I want to make a custon paper size. I have uninstalled/installed LrC.
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Page Setup is a macOS button, in other words, what you see after you click that is supplied by the macOS printing system. If it looks wrong, what that usually means is the wrong or old version of the printer driver was installed.
In other words, what you see in the Page Setup and Print dialog boxes (not the Print module, the Print dialog box that appears after you click the Print button) is not controlled by Lightroom Classic or any application, but by macOS, and in some sub-panels, the options are supplied by the printer driver currently selected in macOS.
If advanced options are missing, on a Mac that can also be a symptom of the AirPrint version of a printer driver being installed instead of the full/professional version of the printer driver. If there’s a chance that’s the problem, you can solve it using the instructions in this Macworld article:
The trick to finding the right printer driver for your Mac
The AirPrint version is often automatically suggested by macOS, while the full version is what you download directly from the printer manufacturer’s web site and manually install.
In short, if you aren’t seeing the right settings in Page Setup or Print, do these troubleshooting steps:
If you aren’t sure about the last two items there, just go to the printer manufacturer’s web site and download the compatible, full driver directly and install that.
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On Windows, you define custom paper sizes in the print drivers:
For example:
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Sorry, I did go by the Mac mention in the post, but now I see that you did label your post Windows.
However…that doesn’t change the ultimate answer to the question, because in general it does work the same way on both Windows and Mac: As johnrellis confirmed in his reply, in Windows, you define custom paper sizes in the printer driver. So, the troubleshooting path is the same: If the correct printer driver is installed and selected, and if it supports custom paper sizes, then it should be possible to create custom paper sizes. The printer driver makes the custom paper sizes available to the OS (Windows in this case), and then the OS makes those custom paper sizes available, through Page Setup, to all applications that print, including Lightroom Classic.
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One little wrinkle here: switching to "print" to JPG pauses your ability to access the print driver itself, for freely changing page setup.
As an example: say you want a "borderless" layout output to JPG - but the remembered page layout from when you were set to output to device, involves hardware print limits. You would in that case need to switch temporarily back to outputting to device, select a 'borderless' page option in its print driver, and then switch back to outputting to JPG. But now with expandable margins, so images can go right to the edge.
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"I want to send a print to a lab: 24x36", 300 dpi, image placed on the page as I wish, with a border"
If you don't have an installed printer whose driver supports custom page sizes, you've got a couple of options:
1. With your current printer, in the Print Job panel, select Print To: JPEG File and enter the custom page dimensions in the Custom File dimensions:
At least in my LR, it was a little glitchy displaying what I just entered (showing 0.00 in), but the sizes "took", as shown in the screenshot.
2. If your Creative Cloud subscription includes Acrobat, you can set LR Print to use the Adobe PDF printer installed along with Acrobat; it lets you define a custom page size. Then you can either print to a PDF or save the print to JPEG.
I found I had to restart LR after defining the page size in the Adobe PDF driver: