Try to get the "Green movement" on board. I almost always print my paper "half-size" - which means that I shrink any A4 document into two A5 documents alongside each other - I reduce my paper usage by a half. If does the same using letter paper, there is always an unused strip of paper.
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Millet Sent: 29 May 2007 23:34 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:38784] Re: Weird US paper sizes 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]> wrote: 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2007 05 30 2:03 AM, "Mike Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
