Dear All,
Could it be that the paper size is being prepared for metrication. The size
of an A0 paper is 840 mm x 1189 mm (33 5/64ths x 46 13/16ths) and the larger
of these dimensions would easily be trimmed from a paper made on a 1270 mm
(50 inches) web. This would leave about 40 mm for trimming from each side,
and considering the edge effects in paper making this sounds about right.
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Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
CAMS - Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist
- United States Metric Association
ASM - Accredited Speaking Member
- National Speakers Association of Australia
Member, International Federation for Professional Speakers
on 2001/07/22 13.21, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2001-07-21
>
> Can you explain further what you are writing here? Are you saying that the
> Atlanta Constitution is reducing some dimension from 54 inches to 50 inches?
> A page of the Cleveland Plain dealer is 320 mm (w) x 560 mm (h). 54 inches
> comes out to 1372 mm. I guess I'm not seeing what the 54 or 50 inches is
> referring to.
>
> Also, 1.27 m is not that logical. The more logical would be 1.25 m. The
> last digit should always be a 0 or a 5. Also, newspaper sizes world-wide,
> where metric is used might follow the ISO "A" or "B" series. A1 would be
> 595 mm x 841 mm, A2 would be 420 mm x 595 mm and A3 would be 297 mm x 420
> mm. It seems the Plain Dealer falls between the two.
>
> The closest in the "B" series is B2, which is 515 mm x 364 mm. The "B"
> series uses 1.5 m� as the base for B0, where as A0 is 1.0 m�.
>
> It would be interesting to note what the newspaper dimensions in metric
> countries is.
>
> Any idea, anyone?
>
>
> John
>
> Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
> frei zu sein.
>
> There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
> are free!
>
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Norman Werling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Greg & Tammy Booth Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "US Metric
> Assn." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, 2001-07-21 23:00
> Subject: [USMA:14529] John Walter's explanation that "(size)change will make
> paper more comfortable"
>
>
>> To Editors of The Atlanta Constitution:
>>
>> Mr. Walter explains that the movement to the "50-inch web" size began in
>> Toronto about a decade ago. Toronto, Ontario is in Canada, which has
> openly
>> joined the rest of the world as a metric country. This leaves just the
>> United States, of the industrialized world, which seems to think and act
>> like it is not using metric.
>>
>> That 50-inch web size calculates to a very logical 1.27 meters (or 127
>> centimeters or 1270 millimeters) sheet size. The old 54-inch was an
>> obviously non-metric size of 1.403858 meters.
>>
>> Americans think that they are not using the International System of Units
>> (SI), the metric system. All of our cars are metric with translations
> into
>> the archaic measures Americans still use. Look at the measures on all
>> grocery store items prepackaged by the manufacturer which also show grams
>> or milliliters.
>>
>> Even Britain has changed to metric. America, finish it now!
>>
>> Norman Werling (retired & age 65)
>> 1240 Hunters Drive
>> Stone Mountain, GA 30083
>> 404-292-9328 (home)
>>
>>
>
