Ok, after looking at the limitations on CloneZilla's page:
I remember what I did. I used GParted to resize the partition on the large drive so that it was less than the size of the SSD.
If you want to do multiple partitions, you may have to do multiple images. Does your large drive have multiple partitions that you want to copy over (e.g. recovery partition + main partition)? If this is the case, then you'll have to partition the SSD to match the original disk (2 partitions on original drive = 2 partitions on SSD).
I would highly suggest just putting the original drive back into the laptop and creating the recovery discs first. That way, in case this doesn't work quite right, and you can't copy over the recovery partition, then you'll at least have original discs to go back to for the factory image. I know it would be a pain, but IMO this would be the best route as a "just in case" measure. Then if you want, you can continue the clone as I described above (do each partition at a time rather than whole disk clone).