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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
Frank Arthur wrote:
Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper? Ask for it. No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of 210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes have the same length:width ratio. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka "metric") is really much easier to work with. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Step into the 21st century! |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
Menno wrote:
Frank Arthur wrote: Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper? Ask for it. No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of 210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes have the same length:width ratio. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka "metric") is really much easier to work with. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Step into the 21st century! You mean "step into the 1970's", don't you? German paper standard DIN 476 was adopted as an ISO standard for paper sizes as ISO 216 and as the official United Nations document format in 1975. Incidently, German DIN 476 was adopted in 1922. Paraphrased from http://homepage.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/Art_App3.htm |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
"Menno" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper? Ask for it. No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of 210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes have the same length:width ratio. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka "metric") is really much easier to work with. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Step into the 21st century! I agree and have been a long time strong advocate of switching to Metrics. Unfortunately Americans would sooner die than give up their inch system. A4 would be great but available mats, frames etc are for 8 x 12 inches and A4 mats or frames are not sold here. |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
Or you can buy 12" x 16", 12" x 18" and 13" x 19" papers and cut them to
some appropriate size. The 12" x 16" papers (mainly available for artists) would make two 12" x 8" papers with no waste at all. The others allow for a number of options, like having borders, or adjusting the image size somewhat. Art Take a stack of any of the above papers to any print shop (not a photocopy shop) and ask that they put it on their guillotine cutter and cut to any dimension you wish. Probably US$1 per cut. That's what we charge. Yes, Frank, it might be better if 12x8 were available, but how much energy are you going to waste trying to make the world fit your model? Life's too short. Spend more of it looking through the viewfinder... (c: Enjoy, -- DaveC This is an invalid return address Please reply in the news group |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
Frank Arthur wrote:
"Menno" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper? Ask for it. No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of 210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes have the same length:width ratio. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka "metric") is really much easier to work with. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Step into the 21st century! I agree and have been a long time strong advocate of switching to Metrics. Unfortunately Americans would sooner die than give up their inch system. A4 would be great but available mats, frames etc are for 8 x 12 inches and A4 mats or frames are not sold here. A4 paper should fit in a 8x12in matt, assuming that the hole in the matt is actualy slightly smaller, so the the edge of the 8x12in paper is captive all the way around. 8x12in is 203x305mm and A4 is 210x297mm, so if their is a 1/4in (or there-abouts) overlap between the opening in the 8x12in matt and the 8x12in paper, it will quite happily hold A4 paper as well. |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
"dj_nme" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: "Menno" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper? Ask for it. No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of 210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes have the same length:width ratio. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka "metric") is really much easier to work with. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Step into the 21st century! I agree and have been a long time strong advocate of switching to Metrics. Unfortunately Americans would sooner die than give up their inch system. A4 would be great but available mats, frames etc are for 8 x 12 inches and A4 mats or frames are not sold here. A4 paper should fit in a 8x12in matt, assuming that the hole in the matt is actualy slightly smaller, so the the edge of the 8x12in paper is captive all the way around. 8x12in is 203x305mm and A4 is 210x297mm, so if their is a 1/4in (or there-abouts) overlap between the opening in the 8x12in matt and the 8x12in paper, it will quite happily hold A4 paper as well. |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
"dj_nme" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: "Menno" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper? Ask for it. No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of 210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes have the same length:width ratio. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka "metric") is really much easier to work with. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Step into the 21st century! I agree and have been a long time strong advocate of switching to Metrics. Unfortunately Americans would sooner die than give up their inch system. A4 would be great but available mats, frames etc are for 8 x 12 inches and A4 mats or frames are not sold here. A4 paper should fit in a 8x12in matt, assuming that the hole in the matt is actualy slightly smaller, so the the edge of the 8x12in paper is captive all the way around. 8x12in is 203x305mm and A4 is 210x297mm, so if their is a 1/4in (or there-abouts) overlap between the opening in the 8x12in matt and the 8x12in paper, it will quite happily hold A4 paper as well. And now to find A4 paper in the USA? |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
Frank Arthur wrote:
"dj_nme" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: "Menno" wrote in message ... snip I agree and have been a long time strong advocate of switching to Metrics. Unfortunately Americans would sooner die than give up their inch system. A4 would be great but available mats, frames etc are for 8 x 12 inches and A4 mats or frames are not sold here. A4 paper should fit in a 8x12in matt, assuming that the hole in the matt is actualy slightly smaller, so the the edge of the 8x12in paper is captive all the way around. 8x12in is 203x305mm and A4 is 210x297mm, so if their is a 1/4in (or there-abouts) overlap between the opening in the 8x12in matt and the 8x12in paper, it will quite happily hold A4 paper as well. And now to find A4 paper in the USA? I suppose that I'm spoiled for choice in that case, not living in the USA. I could send you some for a small fee ;-) |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
"dj_nme" wrote in message
Frank Arthur wrote: "dj_nme" wrote in message ... [snip] And now to find A4 paper in the USA? I suppose that I'm spoiled for choice in that case, not living in the USA. I could send you some for a small fee ;-) Or me, I could do with some letter size, can't get that here in the UK at all. BTW not wanting to start a row, but as someone who grew up with inches, gallons etc. I am very much opposed to being forced to use the metric system, I just don't understand it, nor why it has to be forced on us whether we want it or not. Fortunately, the European Union has just backed down on a plan to force us to use metric only measurements when buying food, so it is no longer illegal to sell apples by the pound ;-) Ivor |
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Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper?
And now to find A4 paper in the USA?
That might be an easier argument to sell to the inkjet printer companies, actually. Since they already market such a product, it may be easier to get them to consider distributing the A4 dimensioned paper in North America. As mentioned by others, it isn't exactly the dimensions you are looking for, but with a slight reduction you can get the aspect ratio your were after without waste. Art Frank Arthur wrote: "dj_nme" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: "Menno" wrote in message ... Frank Arthur wrote: Want 8x12 Epson or HP Photo Paper? Ask for it. No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of 210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes have the same length:width ratio. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka "metric") is really much easier to work with. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Step into the 21st century! I agree and have been a long time strong advocate of switching to Metrics. Unfortunately Americans would sooner die than give up their inch system. A4 would be great but available mats, frames etc are for 8 x 12 inches and A4 mats or frames are not sold here. A4 paper should fit in a 8x12in matt, assuming that the hole in the matt is actualy slightly smaller, so the the edge of the 8x12in paper is captive all the way around. 8x12in is 203x305mm and A4 is 210x297mm, so if their is a 1/4in (or there-abouts) overlap between the opening in the 8x12in matt and the 8x12in paper, it will quite happily hold A4 paper as well. And now to find A4 paper in the USA? |
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