Re: off topic Question of the day..
I'm finding this excahnge harder and harder to follow...
On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 18:28:31 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 10 July 2016 15:01:42 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 July 2016 19:47:19 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:26:01 John Hasler wrote:
> > > > Gene writes:
> > > > > Anything but letter, or maybe legal, is special order on this
> > > > > side of the pond.
I understand that, if you live in a small town.
> > > > Lots of outfits such as OfficeMax claim to stock A3.
> > > > http://www.a4supplies.com/ claims to have everthing A size.
At $58-72/ream (20-28lbs), that's a lot more than 11x17 at, say,
Staples: $18-19/ream (20), $60-88/5reams (20-24).
> > > Uh huh, and thats special order for me in small county seat town
> > > West Virginia. :) Pick up at the local wally's store for a few cents
> > > north of $19 for a 500 sheet ream of fairly smooth paper Is hard to
> > > beat.
That's a good price for 28lbs paper if that's what it is.
> > This is what I mean by special order - look at the prices. :-/
> >
> > https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field
> >-keywords=tabloid+sized+printer+paper&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atabloid+sized+pr
> >inter+paper
> >
> > https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&fie
> >ld-keywords=A4+printer+paper&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AA4+printer+paper
>
> Pounds to dollars, thats 3x what I just paid for 28 lb well finished copy
> paper. Those folks must think you Brits all have your own money tree?
But you'd have to be crazy buying ledger rather than A3 in the UK.
BTW I do find American paper weights about as obfuscated as anything.
I think you need to serve an apprenticeship in printing to have a clue.
There'a website http://okpaper.com/calculators/lbs-to-gsm that claims
to do the conversion. Type in 20 lbs and it spits out
GSM text 29.6
GSM cover 54.16
They're not seriously telling me that the standard US paper weight
(20lbs) comes out at those gsm values. 80gsm is standard, and if you
buy 70gsm at cheap stores, there's a fair chance it'll misfeed in the
printer. 60gsm comes in writing tablets and would be hopeless in any
machine. (I haven't a clue what "text" and "cover" mean.)
Of course, the fundamental problem with the American system is 20 lbs
of what? Yes, paper; but how much?
Cheers,
David.
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