Original Printable Notepads

It has come to my attention that many users are having trouble getting their printers to print out the printable notepads from Livescribe Desktop.  In the interest of helping people, I have (using HP Universal Printing PS) obtained the Livescribe Postscript files, then converted them using Acrobat Distiller to PDF. These files are working very well on either a black & white or color laser printer as long as page scaling is turned off. I hope these files will help you too!! If anyone’s interested, I can post the original PS files.

Since I have had a lot of questions about these files, I would like to explain it simply, in a way that is understandable to everyone: these files are created from files distributed with Livescribe Desktop. You do not need to deploy an AFD file to use them as the latest (and some of the older) smartpen firmware include them already. Simply download, and print on your black & white or color laser printer after disabling page scaling.

Let me know if you have any problems or questions.

Printable Notepad 1 – Lined

Printable Notepad 2 – Lined

Printable Notepad 3 – Lined

Printable Notepad 4 – Lined

142 thoughts on “Original Printable Notepads”

  1. Lee

    Can not get this paper to work. I also am trying to develope for my own use, could you help! PLEASE E-MAil..

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      No I'm not. At the time I uploaded these I was using a free upload site because my bandwidth was much more restricted. You can chose to wait at the download site for 45 seconds for a free download or pay them for a premium membership without waiting. There was no charge from my end. Regardless that's irrelevant at this point because all the downloads are hosted here now.

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  4. Kellie

    Yes! I was surprised these finally work. I've tried for a year to get a workable paper from my own printer. Thank you, excellent work.

    Kellie

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  6. kevin

    Excellent thanks from a new user who has spent all day trying to get these damn things to print properly using the other options, wish I had found this 8 hours ago lol.

    Kevin

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  7. mal

    I am completely new to all this but hoping I can use this for CAD
    Any chance you can post a 24×36 or 11×17 size sheet.
    thanks in advance

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      HI mal,

      I normally do all of my graphic work with regular letter sized paper. I can take a look and see if I can come up with something that's 11×17 but I'm not going to make any promises on that.

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      1. Tom Moore

        I have printed the files from eclipse to paper and from eclipse to a post script file. In both instances, the controls at the bottom of the page do not print. In all other respects the paper is perfect. The problem is not unique to your files, so I assume that I have made a mistrake some placealong the way. I have access to a post script printer so that is not the issue. The PDF files are so large my system (Win 7 with 4GB Ram) just freezes. I appreciate your help.

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        1. Rohan Kapoor

          You are not supposed to print the AFD file through eclipse. It purposefully is built without the controls otherwise they would appear in Livescribe Desktop. The controls are only in the PDF file; printing from eclipse will not get you the controls. This is the same with all files that you will find online (assuming they have all been made correctly). My systems all with Windows 7 and between 1-2 GB of Ram apiece are able to open all of the files.

          Try opening it in Adobe Reader X (released about two weeks ago) as it is better at handling massive files. Alternatively, wait a couple of minutes and your system should recover. I should add that you shouldn't try to browse the file, once it loads, open the print menu immediately. Additionally, I haven't had any freezing or lagging on my machines. I have seen a couple of computers with 1 GB of Ram and Windows 7 freeze if they have too many files open in Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional, however they too recover given a minute or two.

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  10. Seemi

    Thank you SO much for posting these! I needed to print these on label sheets for my classroom and I couldn't do it without buying a new printer. You have made my life so much easier.

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      No problem! I'm glad that they worked out for you. The ability to print Livescribe Paper without a printer that handles native postscript is very nice. I know how you feel because my printer doesn't handle postscript natively as well.

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      1. Dee

        Hi Rohan,

        if u have already posted these unlined notepads (as pds and no need for deployment etc), can you kindly redirect me? I'm trying to print my lecture notes on top of these papers so find that the 25p notepads u've put up are not enough so if u have a version w a lot of papers, it will make life superb!

        I'm a huge fan of you and your papers :p Thanks! 🙂

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      2. Dee

        Hi Rohan,

        would you already have posted these unlined notepads? If so, can you kindly redirect me?
        Thanks!

        (sorry if i have posted a similar comment but i can't seem to find it)

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  12. Ulli

    Hi,

    great work. Is it possible for you to generate some A4 files? Can I use each file twice or more or only one Time? Does it work out of the box or do I have to manipulate the pen's firmware?

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Thank you! I do not deal with A4 files at all as I am in the US and we only use Letter, sorry. As for each of these files they can be used once each before needing to be archived. And yes these ones do work out of the box. They come predeployed on the pen from Livescribe.

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  13. Pascale

    hello,

    Your work is interesting but excuse me for that simple-minded question. is it possible to print a notepad with a inkjet printer ? I feel I can't. The paper is grey and the livesribe says "upload the smartpen's software to use the dot paper". Thanks for your help. In France it's difficult to find notepads :-(.

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Livescribe officially states that it is impossible to print notepads with inkjet printers. Of course they did state that it was impossible to print notepads with black and white laser printers as well but I (and many others) consistently do and they work perfectly fine. I have heard a couple of people on the Livescribe Forums say that they have had success with inkjet printers but that it is just not economically because of the amount of ink it takes to print one notepad page. If the smartpen says "Update the smartpen's software to use this dot paper," it is most likely because you are using outdated software. Try following it's directions and updating the software. It is also possible that you are not using a download from this page and one of my custom notepads. You would need to follow their deployment instructions to use them as the smartpen will not have the needed afd to understand those custom papers. See: https://rohankapoor.com/projects/livescribe/instru… for details

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      1. ryan

        i have the same problem however, i have a CISS which is a continous ink sys supply which ink doesnt really matter to me..i wonder where i can find a fix for the ink jets..

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        1. Rohan Kapoor

          Some inkjets work, most do not. You need to be able to print at 600 dpi with page scaling turned off. Try the photo quality mode in your inkjet's settings and print. You won't know until you try.

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  14. Mal

    Hey Rohan
    You seem quite knowledgeable. I have been on the livescribe for a number of weeks and no clear answer.
    It many make a good article.
    The livescribe pen, why can it not be configured to work with other paper products, specifically with other desktop products like Xpaper and Anoto PenDocument

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      The Livescribe pen cannot work with other Anoto products because Livescribe has licensed specific areas of Anoto's dotpattern for their own use. They can only enable the pen's functionality for the specific segments of the dotpattern that they have the license to use.

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  15. IhanaT

    hey, I think this is great help

    the sad thing is I wasn't able to use it

    I downloaded the file, opened it, hit print and it printed out a page of dot paper but when I tried my pen on it, nothing happened :S any ideas of why it doesn't work?

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  17. terri

    So nice of you to post these files!
    I'm afraid my home laser b/w printer may not work them though – one of the printer options is Half-Toning and all the options give the same kind of result – a semi-random dot pattern. Doesn't sound like this printer will handle it, does it?

    thanks

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      I can't tell you for sure, but I would guess that your laser printer is able to do handle them. You need to make sure that you disable half-toning and turn off page scaling in acrobat. If you can set the exact dpi, you need 600 (which is high quality on many cheap laser printers). Try the paper it prints with your pen, that is the best way of finding it out.

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  19. Tobin Perry

    Why when I print these files and hit record on the sheet, it says I need to update my pen's software? When I plug in my pen it says I have the most recent version of my pen's software? I'm new user and using a MAC right now.

    Thanks!

    Tobin Perry

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    2. Derrik

      I printed Lined Notepad 1, making sure to select DO NOT fit to scale. I then tried to record with my updated pen and it reads “please update your pen’s software to use this dot paper”. What do I need to do to use your notepads? Thanks!

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  20. Bill

    Thanks Rohan,

    My pen is coming any day now! I've printed these out in anticipation of "messing around" a lot before I use the official notepads that come with the pen.

    Bill

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      You are very welcome Bill! Did you pen come in yet? As I noted above, these are the official notepads that can be printed from the Livescribe Desktop tool. Don't worry though, as I responded to your other comment, you can always archive the existing notepad and print it again.

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  21. Justin Dunham

    Well done, sir! I had trouble printing from livescribe desktop but this worked like a charm (after waiting for the PDF to load). As you reported, I'm able to get black-and-white pages to work as well, which makes the boss happy. Thanks!

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Thank you! Most printers can't print directly from Livescribe Desktop as it requires Postscript Capable Printers (which are comparatively expensive to those without Postscript). The PDF files are a little large but on fairly modern machines (Win 7, 2 GB RAM, Dual Core Processor), it shouldn't take too long. Glad it worked well for you.

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  24. Saphy

    Thank you so much Rohan, I needed this for class and finally I can print it. Great Great Help!! Thanks!! (:

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  25. oliviermar

    Thank you! Printing usable files worked perfectly , and quickly with my HP photosmart c510. (Set p at resolution of 600 * 600)._Printing five pages took exactly five minutes in color. I did not try in B&W._However, I did not succeed to get a usable print with my other HP c6200 (also in 600*600)

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Glad to here it Olivier! I don't know either of the HP printers you mentioned but by chance is the c6200 an inkjet printer? Inkjet printers are known to have issues with printing dot paper and are not recommended for that reason.

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  29. Oraz

    Thank you very much! Couldn't figure out how to get them… For Mac though took lot of time to load them and had to force quit Preview coz it was consuming all the memory. However it worked fine with Acrobat.
    Thanks a lot!

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      I don't use Mac computers so I'm unfamiliar with the Preview application. I do know that Adobe is the “standard” for PDF files (as they did create the format) so it makes sense that it did work there. Glad you were able to get it all to work.

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  30. Bhasker.

    Hi Rohan,

    When I open the pdf file, it shows up with grey background.

    When I print it, it's prints with grey back ground '1mm' square

    inch grey boxes all over.

    I am using adobe reader X (version: 10.1). Not sure how to overcome

    this problem. Thanks.

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Hi Bhasker,

      I guess I'm a little confused. You say it has a grey background. This is perfectly normal because it has to output the dot pattern (which is the gray background covering the whole page). You should still be able to write on it fine and see the lines below the dot pattern.

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  33. Christophe

    Hi Rohan, If I understand right, I just need to print your pdf file with a printer that support 600dpi and that's all it works ?
    Black and white is working or does I need a Color laserjet ?

    thx a lot for your answer.

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  34. Jim Morrissett

    I Hope I can interest you in this idea. I want to record audio with my LS Echo Pen independent of the notebook temporarily.
    I want to be able to speak to the pen in complete darkness, and be able to PAUSE then pen. For this, it would be handy to have a small, say 3"x5" card or pad with a very large "Pause" button in the center, and large enough "Record" and "Stop" buttons at the top and bottom of the pad. I could then tap the pen on these buttons in the dark, without needing to have a light on to find the very small buttons ordinarily provided on notebook pages. Could you or someone copy and paste these buttons and repeat them enough times accurately (with Photoshop? I don't have it just now on my Macbook Pro) to create a pad or card like this? I would want the center PAUSE button to be at least 2"x 2,"–perhaps 3"x3" on a 3×5 card?

    Other folks might LOVE to have this. I certainly would!!!

    Jim Morrissett, [email protected]

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  35. Ian

    Thank you so much – can anyone tell me what the difference between the 4 Notepads? I can't see any, but maybe it is size?

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      There's no difference between them physically. The only difference is that they each have a different dot pattern license attached to them allowing you to all four of them simultaneously without the text overlapping when you connect your pen to Livescribe Desktop. It's like when you buy 4 notebooks to use simultaneously you wouldn't buy them all the same color or you would be confused. This way you can use Notepad #1 for say lists, Notepad #2 for say writing down messages, etc. and Livescribe Desktop would show each notepad separately in the interface.

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  36. ASPIV

    Do the notebooks have to be activated or anything?? Silly question I know, but on the notebooks you have to "tap here before using". Didn't know if that was the same with the printable paper too?? Thanks

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      No they do not have to activated. Those "tap here before using" buttons actually serve no purpose in terms of initialization, they simply are there to let you know if you have one of those notebooks on your pen (that you haven't archived yet) so that you don't overwrite your own data. These are already pre-installed on your Smartpen(s) as they are created by Livescribe and I've simply repacked them into a .pdf file. All you need to do is print them and you are all set!

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  38. brigannj

    AWESUM, Rohan! Worked beautifully from the get-go! Just saved the PDF to my Desktop and printed 25 double-sided sheets that work like the ones I purchase. Now, if you could figure out another PDF for the smaller sized note pads that would be AWESUMx2!
    No pressure 😉 THANKs, again!
    Tony S.
    Brigantine, NJ

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Glad to hear that it worked out for you Tony! Unfortunately I had several problems with creating smaller notepads (with specifically laying them out in PDF files for printing) and decided to let it "stew." Since then, Livescribe has closed their Developer Program so I have no more access to additional pattern credit to make another attempt.

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  39. ilium007

    Any chance for an A4 version ?? You say the page should not be scaled so I assume these are foolscap ?? Thanks for the work !

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  40. Derrik

    I tried to use the pdf notebooks, printing without fitting image to scale, with an upgraded pen, and my pen says I need to upgrade. What is the deal?

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  41. MertBert

    WORKS!!! And I don't even think my printer is a laserjet (HP Deskjet 1051). But I made sure to print it in the highest of quality and NOT to scale it.

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  42. Darrin Parker

    Hi I am about to buy my first livescribe smartpen and love the idea of being able to print my own notepaper etc. However as a law student I need approximately 200 pages per notebook for four subjects per semester. I have downloaded your files and would like to develop my own larger notebooks. I no idea where to begin, your advice and assistance will be appreciated

    dp:)

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  44. MMah

    Hello Rohan,

    First of all, thanks a bunch for doing something that even LiveScribe didn't care to do for its customers.

    I printer the papers and they work great, however there is one slight problem.

    I noticed that the original notepads that come with the pen have a much lighter background, almost white or very light grey.

    The papers in your pdfs have a very dark grey background which makes it challenging to read the material on the paper (of course it doesnt matter if you only care about the digital version, but still some people like to keep paper records 🙂

    Can you please tell me how to fix this?

    Thanks!

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Hi MMah,

      It sounds like something printer specific. See if you have a half-toning, lighter printing or draft output in your printer settings. You can try all of those and if the paper still works with the pen, that should solve your problem.

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  45. Yusuf

    Thank you for this service.
    I have printed the 1st book, but it doesnt seem to work.
    I have used a network printer :

    My printer is a canon iRC2380i http://www.canon-europe.com/for_work/products/off…
    It supports post script and has 1200 DPI.

    I have read through the comments, and turned off scaling.
    Is it correct for my paper to still have a white border around the paper around the edges.

    Any tips/tweaks will be highly appreciated.

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  47. Popa

    I thank you very much! This files work great on hp f380 inkjet. 🙂 Good luck in your work !

    I tried also to print the Pdf files from "Custom Paper Deployment Tool", using the same printer settings but come out too dark and the pen does not recognize them. Do you think you can change that files to have the same characteristics as those on this page, who coming out brighter and works perfectly ?

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      Glad that they worked out well for you!

      Unfortunately i cannot touch the output on those as the postscript files on those are generated for use with a laser printer (part of the SDK settings) and are then converted to PDF with the same Acrobat template as these files. To be honest, this might be an issue with the way your inkjet printer is processing the PDF file as it looks okay on almost all of the lasers that I/others have tried it on. Can you try printing it on a laser printer and see if you get the same output or not?

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  48. PFFan

    Printed using black cartridge only using an HP OfficeJet 7500 and it worked great… the only thing is the page gets a little too gray, but using blue ink worked well.

    I'd like to print A3 unlined blocks

    Where a spec of the page structure can be found?

    thanks Rohan

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  49. ambersun5000

    hi there thank you for giving live scribe users an alternate to that offered by the desktop but i was wondering if you could help me. when i attempt to print from the desktop im told by the program that there is a printing error and i have attempted to print all of the notepads you have offered on this site without luck and was hoping you could assist me. i think perhaps my printer is where the problem lies im using the KODAK hero 9.1 and when i send your notepad to it to be printed it appears to begin, makes a little noise and prints nothing could you recommend something please….? thank you !

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    1. Rohan Kapoor

      It sounds like a limitation of your printer. I took a quick look at it and it is an inkjet. Livescribe notepads send a huge amount of data to printers and as such a laser printer is required to print them. If you don't have access to a laser, I would highly recommend anything from Brother's inexpensive HL line.

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