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Paper: incompatible technology

August 25, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment

A4vsUSletter.gifWhy is there more than one "standard" paper size?

Before the standards wars between Beta vs VHS or Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD, there was A4 vs US Letter.

Ever downloaded a document or received a file from a friend only to have it print out badly?
There are lots of potential causes of such problems: different typefaces available to the creator and the printer; different operating systems and different versions of the same operating systems exposing limitations in supposedly cross-platform standards; different printer engines, especially when crossing between ink-jet and laser; and so on.
An oft-overlooked cause of problems, however, is different paper sizes.

Read the article here: A4 vs US Letter by Brian Forte

August 25, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item

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