Some title companies require the Deed of Trust be printed on legal size.
Notaries sometimes think there hasn’t been a problem not printing documents two sized as required because they don’t get a phone call. Some signing services will just re-assign a re-sign to someone else and not hire you again. If instructions say print two sized - print two sized.
Reducing some deed of trust to letter will get it rejected by the county. If it’s rejected you may not get notified they’ll just send a different notary to sign a deed of trust only.
Why do notaries get assignments to notarize one or two critical documents? Because of notary error and maybe they’ll tell you and maybe they won’t.
Cheapest legal I have found is at Wal Mart. And I can get 3 reams and it lasts a month. Where as letter I buy a ten ream maybe twice a month.
There are also document preparers that send you a scanned fie and it’s ALL legal size. Because they themselves didn’t print it two sized. But if you reduce a file that that it’s hard ot read.
Paying for two sizes of paper is just a standard expense. But I don’t use nearly the legal as I do the letter. Be careful trying to get away with 100% letter sized if instructions specifically say print according to original size. You won’t always get told you made a notary error. It’s not always no news is good news.
Just my 0.02.