I can't believe that I haven't thought of this yet. Maybe my brain cells just had to ferment for the proper number of decades.
Tuesday I had a gentleman hand me a piece of paper and say "Can I run this through my printer?" I started down the usual line of questioning:
Do you have the package? No.
Do you know where you bought it? No.
Do you know a brand name or anything at all about it? No.
I started by looking up the specs on this particular printer (max 163 g/m2), and started on my little patented speech about paper types, measurements,... blah, blah, blah.
Then I thought: hmmm, grams per meter squared. I can figure out how many meters squared (letter = 0.060264 m2, A4 = 0.0625 m2). I can weigh grams. Why not? So I brought home a paper sample and weighed it on my jewelers scale. It's 11.5 grams/0.060264 m2 = 190.8 g/m2
Nope. Too heavy, literally.
The jewelers scale is accurate to 1/10th of a gram, which is plenty accurate for weighing paper (or loose tea, as I use it at home).
Then I thought: Wouldn't it be convenient if my paper conversion chart had a couple extra columns to list the grams/page of the common 4 or 5 sizes? So I did it. Wouldn't it be even better if I could pick standard paper sizes out of a drop down menu, enter a paper weight in g/m2, and have the spreadsheet fill in the grams per page. I confess, I got carried away. Wikipedia had specs on over 100 standard paper sizes. I only included 70 of those.
Most of us only use 4 or 5 standard paper sizes. Who knew there was a paper size called Double Demy or Elephant? Enjoy! =^..^=
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