Why no 8 pages per sheet option?

The standard Mac Print - Layout - Pages per Sheet drop down offers 1,2,4,6,9 & 16 pages per sheet. Why is there no 8 pages per sheet option? This seems a bizarre omission. In a world of ISO 'A' paper sizes, it is easy to scale any binary power number of sheets onto, say, A4 for printing. 1,2,4 and 16 are offered - what has Apple got against 8? Does anyone know if/how I might add 8 as an option?

It is a desined limitation of CUPS the printing sytem in OS X.  See the documentation on your computer at http://127.0.0.1:631/help/options.html#NUMBERUP
N-Up Printing
The -o number-up=value option selects N-Up printing. N-Up printing places multiple document pages on a single printed page. CUPS supports 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 16-Up formats; the default format is 1-Up:
lp -o number-up=1 filename lp -o number-up=2 filename lp -o number-up=4 filename lpr -o number-up=16 filename
If you find this too limiting, you can give your feedback to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Message was edited by: Matt Broughton

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