A simple, free resource for finding the international standards for paper sizes.

[Designia(o_O)]

Could be handy

[AaronH]

Thats pretty cool! Thanks! I've bookmarked it.

[David]

excellent! and it displays in inches!

cool and thanks for sharing, bookmarked as well!


    

[DigiCorn]

also bookmarked

[Farabomb]

Sweet, thanks!

[Tracy]

ditto :laugh:

[Slappy]

Whoa, not bad! Wish the US Env section would carry out to at least 2 decimal points, or 3 for the pesky .625" versions.

[almaink]

I had no idea other counties used a different size for business cards. I thought 3.5 x 2 was a worldwide standard. Are their wallets different sizes too?

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[StudioMonkey]

I had no idea other counties used a different size for business cards. I thought 3.5 x 2 was a worldwide standard. Are their wallets different sizes too?

There was a suggestion some years ago that the standard business card would have to be made longer to accommodate long email addresses.  The EU were against this because of the impact on the pigskin market so it never got anywhere.

[Diddler]

I had no idea other counties used a different size for business cards. I thought 3.5 x 2 was a worldwide standard. Are their wallets different sizes too?

Well I know that some bosses who I've worked for of the years, have had much bigger wallets than mine. 

[Farabomb]

I'm doing some for a Austrian company and they are definitely not 3.5x2. I had to beat that into the head of bindery when he insisted I put the crop marks in the wrong place. Didn't matter all the notes saying it's not a standard BC on the job bag, he insisted I was wrong. It seriously took half the day, everyone in the shop and the boss to convince him to cut it on the damn marks.

[Joe]

I'm doing some for a Austrian company and they are definitely not 3.5x2. I had to beat that into the head of bindery when he insisted I put the crop marks in the wrong place. Didn't matter all the notes saying it's not a standard BC on the job bag, he insisted I was wrong. It seriously took half the day, everyone in the shop and the boss to convince him to cut it on the damn marks.

So the one time a bindery person pays attention to trim marks.

 

[AaronH]

So the one time a bindery person pays attention to trim marks.

 

My bindery won't do anything if they don't have marks, extra marks no one needs, etc. It is the worst thing in the world if they have to break out a ruler. Usually this is for trimming the foot of a book too so if they don't have a trim mark at .25" on the head AND the foot on a 12pager, all hell breaks loose. Funny thing too, because I thought all of our cutters had little calculator looking dealies that moved the stop... 

They'll scream and shout, roll and the ground like a two year old then miraculously "figure out how to save the job" like it needs saving...     

[Farabomb]

Today was confusion time yet again. It was stone dead simple, quarter the sheet then make the border even. Both me and the boss had issues understanding just what his malfunction was. Cut it in half and half again, measure the border and make it the same all around. He was insisting he needed a ruleout. Kept going on about it.

The kicker was it was the exact same impo we used before. The only difference was me expanding the art square because the client plays fast and loose with the sizes on this master. I ended up having to show him, then giving him the measurements because he couldn't read the ruler.

Yes, this the 35 years in bindery guy.