Dear Jim, Marcus, and All,
It is fairly routine practice in Australia now to have an A3 copier in most
offices, although these machines are rarely moved from their A4 to A4
settings.
Even though the A3 size is not used much for the routine work of multiple
copying, it is considered useful to have the A3 size machine available, so
you can do photo-reduction (from A3 to A4 or from A4 to A5) or
photo-enlargement (from A5 to A4 or from A4 to A3).
This facility is extremely common in Australian offices and it is routinely
used to photo-reduce documents to save paper (half as much) or to make
information clearer such as when you photo-enlarge something like a
technical drawing.
I also agree with Paul Fardig's point that there is a need for photographic
papers that have an aspect ratio of 1.4142:1
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
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on 2002/04/27 02.02, Jim Elwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 08:53 AM 4/26/2002 -0700, Ma Be wrote:
>> My dear friend, Jim. You can't possibly deny the additional benefit of
>> magnification when photocopying documents, for instance, as already
>> vehicled here. Switching to 200% or 50% sizes would suit *perfectly*
>> A-series paper sizes, would it not?...
>
> I am not denying the benefit, only the *magnitude* of the benefit -- it is
> really of nearly trivial importance to most people.
>
> That is NOT to say it isn't important to some (see Paul F's post), but what
> percentage of the users of paper (i.e., nearly every human in developed
> countries) actually fall into that category?
>
>
> Jim Elwell
> Electrical Engineer
> Industrial manufacturing manager
> Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
> www.qsicorp.com
>
