Canon i9900 and Pages presets

I'm new to Mac and I'm finding the switch difficult. I have a Canon i9900 printer. This printer does up 13x17 pages. I used it to print 12x12 scrapbooking pages on my PC but switched to a Mac because of it's color matching capabilites. But now that I'm on the Mac I cannot print anything larger than standard 8.5x11. I've downloaded the latest canon drivers and installed them. Has anyone run into this? When I set a custom page size in i works '06 Pages it immediately reverts back to 8.5x11. It won't even try the 12x12. Apple Chat said this is because most printers won't do that size... BUT... mine will. If I could get it working. I'm so frustrated, can someone help?

Hi there.
Once you have created the paper size you were after, you still must choose it. It will not automatically be chosen.
These are the steps I am using to create a template which is 30cm by 30cm (12 inches by 12 inches)
1. with pages open, go to Page Setup.
2. In the dialogue, select Manage Custom Sizes from the list.
3. In the next screen it will show you the list of all previously assigned custom paper sizes. Since you want one for scrapbooking, click on the small + sign at the lower left of the list and when Untitled appears, doubleclick on it. Then change it to Scrapbook (so we are on the same page...)
4. Under Page Size change it to either 30cm for height and width. Or 12in if inches is what you see.
5. Under Printer Margins on the same screen you should be able to choose Canon i9900, or just use User Defined if you like. These are the margins of blank space on all sides of the paper.
6. Click Okay. You should go back to the Page Attributes screen. You may have to select Scrapbooking from the list of available paper sizes as it will revert to the last choice.
7. Click Okay on the page setup menu once you see it indicate Scrapbooking has been chosen.
This should give you a square Pages document which satisfies your needs.
When it comes to printing, you may still have to choose the proper paper size. Choose your printer and under paper handling use 'scale to fit paper size' and choose the paper size chosen. I think it defaults (at this point) to the sizes built into the printer. Since Scrapbooking is a user defined size, it has to be told to use it.
Good luck. let us know how it works. It appears to output to Preview, but my Printer is average sized, not in the class of John Holmes.

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