Technology Review is metric in its page size.
Mike Millet wrote:
I wonder if any of the US magazines or newspapers have adopted an A
standard for printing. I remember reading a few years back that there
was a concerted effort to flip the US paper industry onto the A
standard but it never got traction.
As a followup, I headed back to the bookstore and did manage to find a
ream of A4 regular copy paper, which I showed the cashier as an
example of what it looked like since she hadn't seen it before. She
looked at it and then tossed it out because "no one would use it".
Fortunately, her reaction is not typical of everyone :).
I noticed that our copiers and scanners are being fed by A size papers
at work as well. It will be interesting to see if the US ever switches
over, or if there has been any movement in that direction.
Anyone heard anything along those lines ?
Mike
On 5/29/07, *Pat Naughtin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Mike,
To my mind there is no benefit in any of the paper sizes you
mention over the A series and B series of international Paper
sizes (ISO 216).
Because A and B series paper sizes are coordinated to minimise
waste when cutting or folding many fewer trees need be cut to
produce them and this has led to their success all around the world.
Here in Australia, we adopted the A series — especially A4 and A3
— for almost all everyday paper uses. For example:
A4 is letter paper or for folding to make an A5 size book
A3 is for posters and for photocopying then folding to make an A4
booklet
A2 is commonly used for newspapers
A1 might be a wrapping paper
A0 at 841 millimetres by 1189 millimetres has an area of one
square metre
The B series is not so common. My wife and I have only used it for
music manuscript paper for orchestral scores.
You will find Marcus Kuhn's excellent description of the A series
paper sizes at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/iso-paper.html>
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216
Geelong, Australia
61 3 5241 2008
Pat Naughtin is manager of _ http://www.metricationmatters.com _an
internet website that focuses on the many issues, methods and
processes that individuals, groups, companies, and nations use
when upgrading to the metric system. Contact Pat Naughtin at
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On 2007 05 30 2:03 AM, "Mike Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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While walking into the bookstore at my local university today
I was looking at the bound spiral notebooks for a replacement
because I'd filled the previous one with all sorts of fun math
equations.
This was an adventure in odd units, and I saw ten by eight,
eleven by nine, eight and a half by eleven, ten by thirteen,
and probably a couple other inch measures that I missed in the
pile.
My question is why are there so many other inch formats
besides the standard 8.5x11?
And while we're on the topic, I also noticed that all our
printers and scanners and copiers at work can use the A4
series papers and the B series SI paper formats. I was kind
of surprised at this but I've never seen metric paper sold or
available anywhere in the US. It's nice to see it's there
though if the US ever decides to switch
For the record I settled on the 279mm x 228mm (11x9in) size :).
I also discovered that if you type 11in into Google and hit
enter the first thing you see is the conversion to
centimeters. Apparently it's so common to do that that Google
just assumes that's what you want.
Mike
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