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- From: walters@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tim Walters)
- Subject: Re: ISO paper sizes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.160217.2768@HQ.Ileaf.COM>
- Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
- References: <1i9j4gEINN8nd@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Jan5.191840.1836@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <1ict41EINN7qk@uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 16:02:17 GMT
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- In article <1ict41EINN7qk@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
- }walters@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tim Walters) writes:
- }>Printers in Germany and Japan use different sizes for the B series.
- }>The German value is specified by DIN; I believe the Japanese value is
- }>specified by some JIS standard:
- }
- }> DIN JIS
- }>B4 250x353 257x364
- }>B5 176x250 182x257
- }>B6 125x176 128x182
- }
- }That's strange news!
- }
- }However, the DIN standard says that it is compatible with the ISO standard,
- }only the tolerances allowed by DIN are smaller than those allowed by ISO,
- }which isn't an incompatibility.
- }
- }How have the JIS people defined the B series? In ISO and DIN, it is
- }just the geometric mean between two A series sizes (geometric mean of
- }a and b is sqrt(a*b)).
- }
- }Still confused ...
-
- Sorry, I don't have the formal JIS standard, I only know that two
- Japanese printers we have inhouse, from IBM and NEC, have B4 paper
- trays with the above sizes. The manuals refer to a JIS standard, but I
- haven't tracked it down.
-
- }Perhaps you mean the following: DIN/ISO define paper end formats. You write
- }'printers ... use'. Do you mean the size of the paper delivered to the printer
- }before it is sent to the offset printing machine and cut to e.g. B4? Ok,
- }that is not the 'paper end format' that is of interest for the common user.
-
- I mean both the paper tray size and the paper size. I believe that B4
- is a popular size in Japan. Could someone from Japan who knows more
- about this shed some light on the issue?
- --
- Tim Walters, Interleaf uunet!leafusa!walters, walters@HQ.Ileaf.com
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