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2. Units of paper quantity - Wikipedia

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   A quire of paper is a measure of paper quantity. The usual meaning is 25 sheets of the same size and quality: 1 ⁄ 20 of a ream of 500 sheets. Quires of 25 sheets are often used for machine-made paper, while quires of 24 sheets are often used for handmade or specialised paper of 480-sheet reams.

3. Paper size - Wikipedia

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   For example, an A4 sheet is 1 ⁄ 16 the size of an A0 sheet, so if it is made from 80 g/m 2 paper, it weighs 1 ⁄ 16 of 80 g (2.8 oz), which is 5 g (0.18 oz). B series [ edit ]

4. Grammage - Wikipedia

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   For example, a 500-sheet ream of 20# 8 + 1 ⁄ 2-by-11-inch (216 by 279 mm) copy paper may be specified "10 M". 1000 cut sheets (or two reams) will weigh 10 lb (4.5 kg), half of the four reams of cut paper resulting from the 20# basis ream of 17-by-22-inch (432 by 559 mm) paper.

5. Continuous stationery - Wikipedia

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   Many laser printers can print on both sides of the paper (duplex printing), which is not possible with continuous stationery. Standard perforations are 5/32 inch in diameter (3.96875 mm, sometimes called 4 mm) and are spaced at 1 ⁄ 2 inch (13 mm) center-to-center. Tear-off horizontal perforations at page top/bottom are exactly in-between ...

6. Printing and writing paper - Wikipedia

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   The history of paper is often attributed to the Han dynasty (25-220 AD) when Cai Lun, a Chinese court official and inventor, made paper sheets using the “bark of trees, remnants of hemp, rags of cloth, and fishing nets.” [5] Cai Lun's method of papermaking received praise during his time for offering a more convenient alternative to writing ...

7. Newspaper format - Wikipedia

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   [1] In some countries, particular formats have associations with particular types of newspaper; for example, in the United Kingdom , there is a distinction between "tabloid" and "broadsheet" as references to newspaper content quality, which originates with the more popular newspapers using the tabloid format ; hence " tabloid journalism ".