Salon - - Are we being shortchanged

winwintoo · #1 09-26-2003, 05:13 PM

I was at a meeting yesterday and during a lull in the proceedings, I "squared up" the papers on the table in front of me.

To my surprise, I discovered that the pages were not all the same size. In fact, some of them were at least 1/8 of an inch narrower than others.

The narrow sheet was one I had printed at home.

What does this mean? By shaving 1/8 inch off every sheet of paper, every 64th package of paper is free to the paper mill.

Not much difference to me, but when a mill produces thousands of paper packages a day, the profit adds up.

Next I'm going to count and make sure there are 500 sheets in a package......

Mike · #2 09-26-2003, 06:56 PM

Perhaps you do not have quite enough to do?

Mike

winwintoo · #3 09-26-2003, 07:00 PM

I'm trying to avoid doing what I should be doing, so I have to do SOMETHING

Ed_L · #4 09-26-2003, 07:35 PM

It wasn't long ago that Andy Rooney did a segment on this type of thing. He said Maxwell House coffee is still good to the last drop. BUT..... there aren't as many drops as there used to be.

Ed

chris h · #5 09-27-2003, 06:50 AM

Paper used for printers here is A4 size which is 295mm by 210. Just wondering what size is used in the US/Canada?

winwintoo · #6 09-27-2003, 10:14 AM

Our standard letter paper is supposed to be 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches (215.9 mm x 279.4 mm)

Perhaps the change in paper size was due to some legislated requirement that the paper companies operate in metric (215 mm x 279) althought they still put 8 1/5 x 11 on the package.

margaret

chris h · #7 09-27-2003, 11:27 AM

Everything has to be marked metric here but 90% people are still 'imperial'!