Copying Steiner Onto Lighthouse Pages

Has anyone ever done this? I'm thinking of printing some Steiner pages onto totally blank Lighthouse pages to match some of my other collections already on LH pages. I'd be downloading the file from their site then forwarding to a print shop for them to run off on my supplied pages.

Just wondered if there were any issues I haven't thought of. Thanks.

Can you adjust the Steiner typeface to something approximating Lighthouse's? If you're buying Lighthouse pages, paying for printing and buying mounts, is this going to be any cheaper than buying the tarted-up Steiner pages from Palo (although I realise they probably wouldn't fit Lighthouse binders)? I think what I'd do would be to mount the stamps on blank Lighthouse pages, in Steiner order if necessary, but avoid the printing.

Steiner pages come with page borders. In stamp speak, "blank" usually means "bordered pages without spaces for stamps" which would give you a double border. Using "all-blank" blank pages solves this double border problem and will work just fine. I've done a similar thing many times.

By the way, you can do this yourself, and save money, very easily. Any decent printing shop like Fedex/Kinko's will have photocopy machines that allow you to print on different sizes of paper from your originals on a flash drive or your own printed pages.

To do this, you need to set the page size settings to the dimensions of your Lighthouse pages in decimals. Although some photocopy machines will sense the size of the incoming blank pages and do it automatically. Ask -- or the screen on the machine will tell you.

Put your blank paper into the right-hand large paper hopper (not the normal blank paper drawers which you must pull out slightly to disable their use). This will feed your blank Lighthouse pages through the machine instead of using the paper already in the machine.

You can xerox from either a flash drive or already printed pages -- which I prefer so I can adjust them on the glass slightly if need be. I generally print one page at a time which is admittedly slow (but I'm retired!). I do this to check the quality of each finished printed page and because I don't want a paper jam to cost me a lot of paper (Never happened, but it could happen). You might ask them to clean the glass for you first so you don't have issues on your nice new pages.

What comes out is a very professional looking album page on your size of blank paper which will go into your album with no problem and look quite good. Cost is their 15-20c a page charge for printing plus the cost of your blank LH pages, of course.

There is also an online source that will print Steiner pages on 8.5 x 11" paper, Scott International or Specialty sized (blank) paper, and Minkus sized paper. The result is very good and about 25-30c a page. But I don't think they do Lighthouse size pages. You could ask them, though. It's at AlbumPages[dot]net.

Good luck -- and have fun. It's very rewarding to print your own pages. Most preprinted pages cost a dollar and up these days.