Several responses above that make sense for lenders, but when it comes to title companies, I think the answer is closest to what Lee/AR said, with perhaps a bit of laziness tossed in.
I know what you mean, though. There are a few that have many title docs (most needing notarization) on legal size paper, even if not necessary. I wonder sometimes how many of the docs they deal with are printed by others (i.e. us notaries), so that the additional cost of legal size doesn't hit them as hard. Or maybe they just buy in enough volume that they get much better pricing than we do. Seems to be mostly the bigger settlement companies that probably don't do many in-house signings.
BTW, I doubt the signing companies have anything to do with it, unless you're talking about their instruction pages, in which case, I'd bet it's the same answer. Takes work and time to change it, and they're not the ones who ever have to print them.
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