Printing a contact sheet in LANDSCAPE mode

Question

In ye olden days of iPhoto when you used the print command it would format your photos into a contact sheet in a "landscape" layout (you don't need a degree in physics to realize it makes a more efficient use of a sheet of paper!). Now, when you use the same print command it formats them into a "portrait" layout (lots of wasted space). And there is nowhere to set the layout to either landscape or portrait (like there was in earlier incarnations of iPhoto).
Since MOST photos are taken in a landscape fashion, this makes no sense that you cannot choose this layout type. Normally, I'd chalk it up to Apple's toy-like amateur software, but the fact that this obvious function was available in earlier versions makes this excuse moot.
So, how do you format your contact sheets in a landscape layout?

Answer 1

Someone else just recently asked the same question. Since then I found a way to do it.
1 - in another application bring up the Page Setup window and create a custom size that's 11 inches wide and 8.5 inches in height.
*Just determined that Step 1 is not needed.*
2 -in iPhoto select the photos you want to print and hit the Print button
2 - in the first Print window click on the Customize button.
3 - in the next window click on Print Settings button.
4 - in the next window select Custom as the paper size and set the width to 11 and height to 8.5 and click OK.
5 - click Customize again.
6 - in the next window set the number of columns and other settings.
7 - Click on Print and go from there.
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