"Tiling" Artwork when printing

[LahMayes]

Hey everyone, I designed a label in Illustrator CS. I would like to print it on a sheet of 24 labels (8.5 x 11 sheet 4 labels accross and 6 labels down). I have all the dimensions for the label sheet (margins, horizontal and vertical spacing), but i cant figure out how to make illustrator print it. I looked through illustrator help but all i got was artboard tiling, which is for printing your artwork on more than one page (i guess i kind of want the opposite, print more than one artwork per page), and something about patterns but i dont think thats what i want. Any ideas? Thanks!

~Hal

 

[blueark]

Sometimes the print driver itself will give you this option, but to be safe, it might be better to just do it manually in Illustrator:

1: Select the label and position it in the bottom-left corner
2: Object > Transform > Move and enter the amount you want to move it up in the Vertical box for the next label. Click Copy.
3: Object > Transform > Transform Again... (or Cmd/Ctrl + D)
4: Repeat (3) until the height of the page is filled.
5: Select > All
6: Object > Transform > Move, and enter the Horizontal amount this time, leaving Vertical as 0. Click Copy.
7: Repeat (3) until the width of the page is filled.

Sounds long, but with the keyboard shortcuts, it's actually very quick.