Why is the standard size paper 8 1/2" X 11"?
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Back in the late 1600's, the Dutch invented the two-sheet mold.   The average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms was 44".  Many molds at that time were around 17" front to back because the laid lines and watermarks had to run from left to right.  Sounds big?...well to maximize the efficiency of paper making, a sheet this big was made, and then quartered, forming four 8.5" x 11" pieces. \n\nThis was well before paper machines dominated hand made paper labor.   A couple centuries later when machines dominated the trade (although many hand made paper makers still existed), and the United States decided on a standard paper size, they stuck with the same size so as to keep the hand made paper makers in business.\n\nOddly enough, the United States used two different sizes - the 8" x 10.5" and the 8.5" x 11".   Separate committees came up with separate standards, the 8" x 10.5" for the government and the 8.5" x 11" for the rest of us.  Once these committees found out about each other a couple years later, they agreed to disagree until the early 1980's when Reagan finally proclaimed that the 8.5" x 11" was the official standard sized paper.\n\nUnited States History\n\nNot until World War I or shortly after was a standard paper size agreed to in the United States.   Interestingly enough, within six months of each other, two different paper sizes were set as the standard; one for the government and one for the rest of us. \n\n1.   In 1921, the first director of the Bureau of the Budget established an interagency advisory group with the President's approval called the Permanent Conference on Printing which established the 8" x 10½" as the general U.S. government letterhead standard.   This extended an earlier establishment made by the former President Hoover, the Secretary of Commerce at the time, who established the 8" x 10½" as the standard letterhead size for his department. \n\n2.   Now, during the same year, a Committee on the Simplification of Paper Sizes consisting of printing industry representatives was appointed to work with the Bureau of Standards as part of Hoover's program for the Elimination of Waste in Industry.   This group came up with basic sizes for all types of printing and writing papers.  The size for "letter" was a 17" x 22" sheet while the "legal" size was 17" x 28" sheet.  The later known U.S. letter format was these sizes halved (8 ½" x 11" and 8 ½" by 14").\n\nEven in the selection of the 8 ½" x 11", no special analysis was made to prove this was the optimum size for commercial letterhead.   The Committee that developed the sizes did so using one objective - "to reduce inventory requirements for paper into sizes which would cut from a minimum trimming waste."
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there is not a rule, but standard is 8 to 10 feet tall and half and inch around
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Regular paper.  You need to check your printer to see if you left something in it that was supposed to be removed.  Or maybe something fell in.....that's causing the paper to jam.
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Hello:\n\nMaybe I don't understand your question, but "cm" (or inches) and "pixels" are different.  The length of a legal sheet of paper is 8-1/2 x 14 inches (sorry, I'm old school and don't know metric), standard sheet of paper is 8-1/2 x 11, and A4 sheet of paper is 210 x 297 mm.\n\nA pixel:\n\nDefinition: A pixel is a tiny dot of light on the monitor. \n\nExplanation: "Pixel" stands for Picture Element. It is the smallest part of every image you see on the monitor. The color of a pixel is partly determined by how many bits (on/off units) are used to store the pixel. \n\nPlease go to http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/zdpixel.html.\n\nGoo luck.
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There is no one size fits all form.\n\nDifferent states and different courts use different forms.
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Business Card print size: 3.5" wide x 2" high (probly ad .25 inches of bleed to all sides.\n\nEnvelope size is (normal A-10 envelope) is 4 1/8" high x 9 1/2" wide pluse bleed and without the flap included\n\nLetterhead is 8.5" x 11" (normally)
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The paper is really a blend of linen and cotton and is not green.  It has red and blue fibers, of different lengths, running through it and the printing ink is green.  For more "trivia" please see:\nhttp://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0774850.html
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Paper is generally graded by "weight". The higher the weight the thicker the paper. Paper at opposite ends (the thick and the very fine can both be expensive.) Standard notebook/typing paper is generally around 20 lbs.\n\nAlso the material used to make the paper can affect quality and cost. Paper with a linen content for example is of higher quality than your standard wood pulp based papers.\n\nsome extra info here: \n\nhttp://www.techcolor.com/help/paper.html\nhttp://www.cpsa.org/PRODUCT_RESEARCH/PaperMaking.html
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An A4 sheet of paper is 11.69 inches (297 mm) long, and 8.25 inches (210 mm) wide !
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36.  144 is 12 squared, 121 is 11 squared, etc.
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Check out this site:\nhttp://www.zan1011.com/paper.htm\n\nIt looks like its approximately:\n11.69 x 16.54\n\n11.69 X 200dpi = 2338 pixels in width.\n16.54X100dpi = 1654 pixels in height.
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The thickness of the paper increases with ever fold 2 times. And so with  2 to the power of 7 times it  becomes 128 times thicker and makes it impossible to retain the shape of paper and makes it hard to fold it exactly half.
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No it's not really, but you're meant to write it down in slightly increasing size ie: small 1 through to large 4. It's a psychological test. people avoid choosing 1 & 4 because they're too obvious in extremes and two is weeny, so that only leaves 3 which conveniently fits quite well. \nI've made quite a lot of money in pubs 'reading' people's minds with this trick
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Each time you fold it, it doubles in thickness and halves it surface area.\n\n0.1mm x 2 ^ 40 = 109,951.1627776 km\n\n(68,320 miles)\n\nThat means that the piece of paper would be so thick that it would reach to the Ionosphere (well past the ozone layer!)\n\nAlthough the thickness of the paper would be huge, the surface would be tiny. Say you had a large sheet of paper\n1m x 1m (3'4" x 3'4")\n\n1(m^2) / 2 ^ 40 = (m^2) = 0.90949 (μm)^2\n\n(0.0000000014097 square inch)\n\nSo basically your talking about a large piece of paper that now has such a small surface as to become invisible and so thick that it may get hit by international aircraft!\n\nThat is ridiculous and impossible! Incidentally, no paper can be folded more than 8 times.
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It means that the user has selected a specific type of paper that is not on the Fax/copier. This needs to be added on the bypass tray or inone of the empty bins on the copier.\n\nIf you just want to print on regular 8 1/2 X 11 paper, you can select that when you click on print options.
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Put the information into a text box and then change the size of the text box to 3x5". That way you can print it on a full page of paper, and cut what you need out
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4x6 is pretty large - But, if you really need that size, look for "postcard" paper that you can buy at any office supply store - or online. They will run through your printer and are perforated for easy separation.