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[Patent application number] 20140268185 [Published] 09-18-2014 [Description] 
INDIVIDUALIZING REDUCTION OF ORIGINAL PAGES IN N-UP COPYING OR PRINTING - In response to N-up instructions methods and systems analyze the sizes of printable items within full-size pages to be printed, and determine the minimum size to which each of the full-size pages can be reduced to keep all the printable items above a minimum print item or font size. Because different pages of the print/copy job can have differently sized printable items, at least two of the full-size pages can have a different minimum size to which they can be reduced. Such methods and systems automatically reduce the sizes of the full-size pages (as limited by each potentially different minimum size of each different full-size page) to produce reduced-size pages that will be combined on output pages. Again, because each different full-size page can have a different minimum size, at least two of the full-size pages can be reduced by different reduction amounts during the reduction process.
Xing Li, Webster US - Patent applications