[comp.sys.mac] Just how big is computer paper?

kenk@tellab5.tellabs.com (Ken Konecki) (03/01/90)

Does anybody know what the dimensions are for the Computer Paper
option in the ImageWriter dialog? I've pored over every manual I own
and not one of them mentions the paper sizes. Letter, Legal, and A4 I
know, but the Computer Paper option has me befuddled.

Thanks,
    -Ken K
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bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Ron Bannon) (03/02/90)

In article <2176@tellab5.tellabs.com> kenk@tellab5.UUCP (Ken Konecki) writes:
>Does anybody know what the dimensions are for the Computer Paper
>option in the ImageWriter dialog? 

12 by 11

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ldg@yoda.byu.edu (03/03/90)

In <2176@tellab5.tellabs.com>, Ken Konecki writes:

>Does anybody know what the dimensions are for the Computer Paper
>option in the ImageWriter dialog? I've pored over every manual I own
>and not one of them mentions the paper sizes. Letter, Legal, and A4 I
>know, but the Computer Paper option has me befuddled.

"Computer Paper" is the wide stuff that has always been associated with
the line printers found on mainframes. It is typically printed with green
or blue bars, includes line numbers, etc. It measures 14 7/8" by 11"
including the sprocket holes. I use it all the time on my wide Imagewriter
because I get nice thick stacks of the stuff here at BYU that are printed
on the green-bar side so I can print program listings, etc., on the other.

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casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) (03/10/90)

In article <56ldg@yoda.byu.edu> ldg@yoda.byu.edu writes:
> "Computer Paper" is the wide stuff that has always been associated with
> the line printers found on mainframes. It is typically printed with green
> or blue bars, includes line numbers, etc. It measures 14 7/8" by 11"
> including the sprocket holes.

That's correct, it's the stuff "computer printouts" are printed on.  The 
ImageWriter software treats it as 14 inches wide (not counting the
holes).  Of course that only works if you have a wide-body ImageWriter...

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