Mike, It would be more accurate to say that A4 is a world standard letter size, rather than the world standard. I've heard here and elsewhere that US Letter Size predominates in the Western Hemisphere and that the Japanese have their own series.
I use A4 paper in my printers here and at home when printing out documents that were set to A4 dimensions. The ream I have here in the office happens to be made by Boise Cascade Corp. Generally I have obtained Hammermill A4 paper, as Pierre suggests. (At work I'm at the vagaries of the supply process to some extent.) Jim On Sunday 01 October 2006 23:27, Mike Millet wrote: > I don't know if this has been discussed on the list before, but as I was > cleaning out out printers at work the other day I noticed that all of them > had a little slider to adjust for paper width and A4 as well as some other > formats which I don't quite remember were listed on there. I know that A4 > is the world standard as far as letter paper goes but I was wondering if it > would be possible for the current US 8.5x11inch letter paper to be > replaced by A4? I seem to recall one of my professors at college mentioning > that they use A4 for submitting papers now in international journals or > other academic works, and it looked like A4 could fit well in most filing > cabinets and copiers/faxes/scanners. > > Is it possible to do ? Do US mills still produce paper in Letter size or do > they really take an A size sheet and cut it down to some weird length? > > Mike -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
