Is 80gms paper getting thinner?

[Andy Bennet]

Ooops pressed go too soon.

Each sheet must always weigh 4.9896 grams regardless of thickness (otherwise it is not 80gsm paper).

[Adrian Caspersz]

I missed this one! 99p + 99p delivery

[RobertL]

and in any case it's 80 grams *per square metre*, so changing the size of A4 would have no effect.

Robert

[RobertL]

How interesting, I didn't know that. 841mm x 1189 mm = 1 square metre :-)

Also of course 1189/841 = 1.414 = sqrt(2)

[Huge]

And each A size is half the size of the previous, by folding the previous in half along its longest edge to preserver 1:sqrt(2) ratio.

Way superior to stupid Imperial paper sizes.

[Bob Eager]

This is quite interesting; I found it a while ago.

[dennis]

It does vary, for example, some paper has a coating on it to stop ink wicking along the fibres and that is denser than the paper base.

Then the actual base can vary with the type of fibres used.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Me too. I bought a laser.

[Tim Lamb]

My family like nice photos:-)

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Tim Lamb escribió:

Asda do 100 6x4" prints on glossy photo card for ukp7.50, and the quality is excellent. At that price, why fart around with inkjets that cost a fortune to run and clog up at the drop of a hat?

Ounce for ounce, inkjet ink is more expensive than gold.

[Peter Johnson]

A printer, who buys paper by the pallet, told me with paper made in Finland, every pallet is exactly the same height, whereas paper made in China, the pallets vary in height by up to 1cm, which he told me as an illustration that the Finns are more consistent in their papermaking so maybe the place of manufacture of your 80gms needs to be considered as well.

[whisky-dave]

Why not use the computer to count. ? It can count individual pages too and put that number on the paper.

What has that got to do with it ?

[whisky-dave]

Because inkjets tend to be better quality for the home user. And when you go to poster size injets are cheaper to buy.

So is a lot of things and lasers aren't cheap for colour either.

[Judith]

And ....... have you ever seen anyone do that?

What do they do : have a micrometer on a chain next to the printer?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Isn't white subjective? Our eyes (and cameras) have auto white balance. Who is to say what real white is?

Yes, I was thinking of white shellsuits in UV light at a fairground.

And does something else far more harmful!

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Because I tell it to print 200 sheets, and the ink runs out around 100, then it doesn't know how many it's done!

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Yet a ream and a box of 5 reams has always looked the same to me.

You'd need a damn sensitive set of scales, not a 50p micrometer.

[whisky-dave]

Harry.