In Europe we had 210 mm * 11 inch and 210 mm by 12 inch endless computer paper. These have almost disappeared, as nearly everybody now uses ink jet and laser printers, which allowed us to revert to A size paper. These bastard size paper boxes were stacked up high in computer shops when the dot matrix printer ruled supreme. I used the 12 inch size, as my dot matrix printer plus Commodore 64 computer could not handle A4 with line spacing 1.5.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2003-09-02 11:44 Subject: [USMA:26780] RE: Metric Paper size Dear Bill and All, Did you ever come across a 'mongrel' paper that was metric in one direction and inch-foot in the other. I seem to remember 'letter' paper that was 210 millimetres wide (~ 8 1/4 rather than 8 1/2 inches) and 11 inches long. I think that it was made this way so that both A4 and the 'mongrel' paper would share the same width and therefore drive mechanisms in a printer. I recollect that the printer I had at that time was an Epson, but I can't recall the name of the paper suppliers � it was probably about 10 years ago. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 2003-09-02 07.42, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A3 is 420 mm x 297 mm; A4 is 297 mm x 210 mm. > > For a full discussion of A series sizes, click here: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. > > Note that, although A and B series sizes are specified in millimeters, they > have nothing specifically to do with SI. Rather, they are defined by an ISO standard -- ISO 216. > > It's some time since I was there (1989), but I seem to remember some 8.5" x 11" paper in Venezuela. That could be true for other countries at the northern end of South America, where there is some U.S. influence. > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >> john mercer >> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 13:21 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:26768] Metric Paper size >> Hello everyone I have a question. What is the size of A 3 and a 4 paper. Is 8.5 by 11 inch paper only used in Canada and the States? Thanks for your time.
