"are the same weight paper having different cut size. However, a sheet of common copy paper that has a basis weight of does not have the same mass as the same size sheet of coarse paper (newsprint). In the former case, the standard ream is 500 sheets of paper, and in the latter, 500 sheets of paper. Here are some basic ream sizes for various types of paper. Units are inches except where noted. Sheets can be cut into four sheets, a standard for business stationery known conventionally as ""letter sized paper"". So, the ream became commonly used. The book-paper"
"Page (paper) A page is one side of a leaf (or sheet) of paper, parchment or other material (or electronic media) in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of sheets, on which text or illustrations can be printed, written or drawn, to create documents. It can be used as a measure of communicating general quantity of information (""That topic covers twelve pages"") or more specific quantity (""there are 535 words in a standard page in standard font type"") The word ""page"" comes from the Latin term ""pagina"", which means a ""a written page, leaf, sheet"" which in turn comes"
"× 841 mm). A1 is half the size of a sheet of A0 (i.e., 594 mm × 841 mm), such that two sheets of A1 placed side by side are equal to one sheet of A0. A2 is half the size of a sheet of A1, and so forth. Common sizes used in the office and the home are A4 and A3 (A3 is the size of two A4 sheets). The density of paper ranges from for tissue paper to for some speciality paper. Printing paper is about . Paper may be classified into seven categories: Some paper types include:"
"Sheet of stamps A sheet of stamps or press sheet is a unit of stamps as printed, usually on large sheets of paper based on the size of the printing plate, that are separated into panes that are sold at post offices. Where more than one pane is on a printed sheet they are arranged in a table-like arrangement. The spaces between the single stamps are all of the same size and provide space for a cut or perforation. Today, a sheet of stamps is the most common way of arranging stamps on the impressed paper. The number of stamps"
"the same sheet or piggybacking a project on a vacant, unused portion of a print sheet. Sheet-fed presses are generally ""full sheet"" (28"" x 40""), ""half sheet"" (28"" x 19""), or ""quarter sheet"" (13"" x 19""). In offset printing, the first sheet costs more than the next 1,000. Gang-run printing allows multiple jobs to share the setup cost. For example, a 28"" x 40"" sheet can hold 9 4"" x 6"" at 5,000 or 18 2,500 postcards (each card takes 4.25"" x 6.25"" on the sheet to accommodate full bleed. Gang-run printing has been one of the driving forces in"
"greater strength. Paper weight is sometimes stated using the ""#"" symbol. For example, ""20#"" means ""20 pounds per basis ream of 500 sheets"". When the density of a ream of paper is given in pounds, it is often accompanied by its ""M weight"". The M weight is the weight (in pounds) of 1000 cut sheets. Paper suppliers will often charge by M weight, since it is always consistent within a specific paper size, and because it allows a simple weight calculation for shipping charges. For example, a 500-sheet ream of 20# copy paper may be specified ""10 M"". 1000 cut"
"field of collecting. In fact, the term printing sheet refers only to a part of the actual ""printing sheet"". This is because stamps are mostly printed in four connected sheets, to make best use of the stamp paper. At the post office counter, only the four separated printing sheets are sold. Therefore, the sheet of stamps is also called a counter sheet or pane, though improperly called a sheet of stamps. The empty fields connecting the single counter sheets are called gutters. Normally they are separated in the middle after printing in order to obtain four counter sheets. The half"
"2400dpi 24-bit true color theoretically contains 1.38 gigabytes of information. Paper data storage Paper data storage refers to the use of paper as a data storage device. This includes writing, illustrating, and the use of data that can be interpreted by a machine or is the result of the functioning of a machine. A defining feature of paper data storage is the ability of humans to produce it with only simple tools and interpret it visually. Though now mostly obsolete, paper was once an important form of computer data storage as both paper tape and punch cards were a common"
"as large as 25 inches wide by six inches high. Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip. As strips have become smaller, the number of panels have been reduced. Proof sheets were the means by which syndicates provided newspapers with black-and-white line art for the reproduction of strips (which they arranged to have colored in the case of Sunday strips). Michigan State University Comic Art Collection librarian Randy Scott describes these as ""large sheets of paper on"
"to dry. Because of the rubbing process, printing is only done on one side of the paper, and the paper is thinner than in the west, but two pages are normally printed at once. Sample copies were sometimes made in red or blue, but black ink was always used for production. It is said that a skilled printer could produce as many as 1500 or 2000 double sheets in a day. Blocks can be stored and reused when extra copies are needed. 15,000 prints can be taken from a block with a further 10,000 after touching up. Printing started in"
"Miniature sheet A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed. They may be either regular issues that just happen to be printed in small groups (typical of many early stamps), or special issues often commemorating some event, such as a national anniversary, philatelic exhibition, or government program. The number of stamps ranges from one to about 25; larger sheets of stamps are simply called ""sheets"" with no qualifier. The stamps on the sheet may be perforated in the usual way, or imperforate. The margins or"
"series are a half, a quarter or further fractions of a metre wide. While less common in office use, it is used for a variety of special situations. Many posters use B-series paper or a close approximation, such as 50 cm × 70 cm; B5 is a relatively common choice for books. The B series is also used for envelopes and passports. The B-series is widely used in the printing industry to describe both paper sizes and printing press sizes, including digital presses. B3 paper is used to print two US letter or A4 pages side by side using imposition;"
"Paperboard Paperboard is a thick paper-based material. While there is no rigid differentiation between paper and paperboard, paperboard is generally thicker (usually over 0.30 mm, 0.012 in, or 12 points) than paper and has certain superior attributes such as foldability and rigidity. According to ISO standards, paperboard is a paper with a grammage above 250 g/m, but there are exceptions. Paperboard can be single- or multi-ply. Paperboard can be easily cut and formed, is lightweight, and because it is strong, is used in packaging. Another end-use is high quality graphic printing, such as book and magazine covers or postcards. Paperboard"
"paper"" and ""term paper"". A ""term paper"" was originally a written assignment (usually a research based paper) that was due at the end of the ""term""—either a semester or quarter, depending on which unit of measure a school used. However, not all term papers involve academic research, and not all research papers are term papers. Term papers date back to the beginning of the 19th century when print could be reproduced cheaply and written texts of all types (reports, memoranda, specifications, and scholarly articles) could be easily produced and disseminated. Moulton and Holmes (2003) write that during the years from"
"Paper Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, decorating, and a number of industrial and construction processes. Papers are essential in legal or non-legal documentation. The pulp papermaking process is said to have been developed in China during the early 2nd century CE, possibly as early as the year 105 CE, by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun, although the earliest archaeological fragments of paper derive from the"
"Paper sheets are cut to a size of 10 cm x 10 cm, then the sheets are massed individually. The mean of the masses is used to calculate the mass of the paper per square meter, and the standard deviation is determined from all samples. If the mass is higher than specified, it is a loss for the publisher. Defines the thickness of the paper.Consistency of caliper throughout the paper web is an important consideration.An abrupt increase or decrease in caliper can affect the extent to which the printing plate or blanket contacts the paper and transfers a complete printed"
"The paper size is 'double folio', with two pages printed on each side (four pages per sheet). After printing the paper was folded once to the size of a single page. Typically, five of these folded sheets (10 leaves, or 20 printed pages) were combined to a single physical section, called a quinternion, that could then be bound into a book. Some sections, however, had as few as four leaves or as many as 12 leaves. Some sections may have been printed in a larger number, especially those printed later in the publishing process, and sold unbound. The pages were"
"0.500 inch (13 mm). The most common staples are used with paper. They are almost exclusively applied with a mechanical stapler which clinches the legs after they pass through the paper. Staples of this type are used with a desktop stapling machine. When stapling with a stapler the papers to be fastened are placed between the main body and the anvil. The papers are pinched between the body and the anvil, then a drive blade pushes on the crown of the staple on the end of the staple strip. The staple breaks from the end of the strip and the"
"""coated: two sides"") to produce a glossy look and smooth texture, especially in use for the printing of business cards and book covers. Most countries use the term grammage to describe the weight of the paper in grams per square metre. The term ""card stock"" is used to describe paper with weights from 50 lb to 110 lb (about 135 to 300 g/m). Alternatively, grammage can be expressed in terms of the weight per number of sheets, pound weight – the weight of 500 sheets of paper. In the U.S., card stock thickness is usually measured in ""points"" or ""mils"""
"One sheet In the entertainment industry, a one-sheet or one sheet is a single document that summarizes a product for publicity and sales. A one sheet is a specific size (typically before 1985; after 1985) of film poster advertising. Multiple one-sheets are used to assemble larger advertisements, which are referred to by their sheet count, including 24-sheet billboards, and 30-sheet billboards. The term is also used as synonym for the poster artwork and the film poster itself. Since a one-sheet is used in the official advertising for films, they are prized by both collectors of memorabilia for specific films and"
"commonly have handles around 15 cm long and carrying surfaces around 35 cm square, though handles range in length from vestigial (~6 centimeters) to extensive (~1.5 meters or more), and carrying surfaces range in size from miniature (~12 centimeters square) to considerably wide (1 meter square or more). An alternative, and related, meaning of the word ""peel"" is a wooden pole with a smooth cross-piece at one end, which was used in printing houses of the hand-press period (before around 1850) to raise printed sheets onto a line to dry, and to take them down again once dried. The term"
"100 pages thick. There are also speedpoint staples, which have slightly sharper teeth so they can go through paper more easily. Staples are commonly considered to be a neat and efficient method of binding paperwork such as letters and documents in all areas of office business. This is predominantly because of the low cost and high availability of the staple, and because its small size does not detract from the content of the document. The large staples found on corrugated cardboard boxes have folded legs, but they are applied from the outside and do not use an anvil; jaw-like appendages"
"and US measure, in some sources, a quire was originally 24 sheets.) Quires of 15, 18 or 20 sheets have also been used, depending on the type of paper. The current word ""quire"" derives from OE ""quair"" or ""guaer"", from OF ""quayer"", ""cayer"", (cf. modern Fr. ""cahier""), from L. ""quaternum"", ""by fours"", ""fourfold"". Later, when bookmaking switched to using paper and it became possible to easily stitch 5 to 7 sheets at a time, the association of ""quaire"" with ""four"" was quickly lost. In the Middle Ages, a quire (also called a ""gathering"") was most often formed of 4 folded"
"approximately two pounds of paper and paperboard products each day. The term ""The Paperless Office"" was first used in commerce by Micronet, Inc., an automated office equipment company, in 1978. Traditional offices have paper-based filing systems, which may include filing cabinets, folders, shelves, microfiche systems, and drawing cabinets, all of which require maintenance, equipment, considerable space, and are resource-intensive. In contrast, a paperless office could simply have a desk, chair, and computer (with a modest amount of local or network storage), and all of the information would be stored in digital form. Speech recognition and speech synthesis could also be"
"by suction or vacuum, or heating. Once dry, a generally flat, uniform and strong sheet of paper is achieved. Before the invention and current widespread adoption of automated machinery, all paper was made by hand, formed or laid one sheet at a time by specialized laborers. Even today those who make paper by hand use tools and technologies quite similar to those existing hundreds of years ago, as originally developed in China and Asia, or those further modified in Europe. Handmade paper is still appreciated for its distinctive uniqueness and the skilled craft involved in making each sheet, in contrast"
"permanently bound, or allow for the insertion of pages. There are other formats such as mini albums and accordion-style fold-out albums. Some of these are adhered to various containers, such as matchbooks, CD cases, or other small holders. When scrap artists started moving away from the ""page"" and onto alternative surfaces and objectives, they termed these creations ""altered items"" or now simply called ""off-the-page"". This movement circles back to the history of art from the 1960s when Louise Nevelson was doing ""Assemblages"" with found objects and recycled parts. Modern scrapbooking is done largely on 12 inch (30 cm) square or"
"of these containing 99 photographs arranged in a 3 by 33 grid. In total, each document store contained images of 990,000 documents, and up to 100 document stores could be used in a single Walnut system, for a total storage of 99,000,000 pages. A separate system was used to access pages from the Walnut system. Users would look up keywords stored on an IBM 1405 hard disk system, identifying individual documents to be retrieved. The machine produced punched cards that were inserted into the Walnut. The Walnut system retrieved the documents, copied them onto a film strip and developed it,"
"and pasted into the ""windows"" produced by the black rectangles on the proof pages. These page negatives were then burned in pairs onto hand sensitized aluminum plates with an arc exposure unit and hand developed and mounted on the offset press units. A typical press run for the 14,000 or so copies printed was 40 minutes. For many years it continued in this hybrid mode using a backshop staffed by trained journalism students working as paid student labor under the direction of a professional backshop supervisor and offset pressmen. As a tabloid the six units could print 48 tabloid pages"
"footnote provides another source): Block book Block books, also called xylographica, are short books of up to 50 leaves, block printed in Europe in the second half of the 15th century as woodcuts with blocks carved to include both text and illustrations. The content of the books was nearly always religious, aimed at a popular audience, and a few titles were often reprinted in several editions using new woodcuts. Although many had believed that block books preceded Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the first part of the 1450s, it now is accepted that most of the surviving block books"
"the page. To prepare documents for comb binding there are special 19-hole punches for letter paper and 23-hole punches for A4 paper. The holes are usually rectangular in shape, to accommodate the plastic binding combs. Specialized punches are also used for the similar but incompatible coil binding process. There are office models available for the perforation of 1 to 150 sheets of paper, and industrial models for up to 470 sheets. Most multiple-hole and many single-hole punches accumulate the waste paper circles (chads) in a chamber, which must be periodically emptied in order to allow the continued operation of the"
"Block book Block books, also called xylographica, are short books of up to 50 leaves, block printed in Europe in the second half of the 15th century as woodcuts with blocks carved to include both text and illustrations. The content of the books was nearly always religious, aimed at a popular audience, and a few titles were often reprinted in several editions using new woodcuts. Although many had believed that block books preceded Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the first part of the 1450s, it now is accepted that most of the surviving block books were printed in the"
"50 different stamps on a single sheet, such as in the 50 state flags, birds and flowers. Se-tenant stamps began as issues of separate designs that were simply attached to one another, but have developed to issues where the stamps are part of a larger continuous design. Se-tenant (philately) Se-tenant stamps or labels are printed from the same plate and sheet and adjoin one another, unsevered in a strip or block. They differ from each other by design, color, denomination or overprint. They may have a continuous design. The word ""se-tenant"" translates from French as meaning ""joined together"" or ""holding"
"sheets of vellum or parchment, i.e. 8 leaves, 16 sides. The term ""quaternion"" (or sometimes ""quaternum"") designates such a quire. A quire made of a single folded sheet (i.e. 2 leaves, 4 sides) is a ""bifolium"" (plural ""bifolia""); a ""binion"" is a quire of two sheets (i.e. 4 leaves, 8 sides); and a ""quinion"" is five sheets (10 leaves, 20 sides). This last meaning is preserved in the modern Italian term for quire, ""quinterno di carta"". Formerly, when paper was packed at the paper mill, the top and bottom quires were made up of slightly damaged sheets (""outsides"") to protect"