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Weights and Measures: Double

Double elephant 22 x 27 .23 x 331 .26 x 33 .26 x 40 1 roll of parchment.

Printing Paper NAME.

INCHES.

Medium. 19 x 24 20 x 25 22 x 28 22 x 32 24 x 30 .24 x 36 Double medium.

Double royal..

Double superroyal.

Also sometimes .24 x 38 .26 x 40 28 x 42 29 x 43 60 skins.

Now, for convenience in counting, 500 sheets are more often called a ream, and the word quire is used only for the folded note paper, other paper being usually sold by the pound. Quotations are ordinarily made in cents per pound. But the number of pounds in a given ream of paper is determined by the thickness of the individual sheets, and the weight in turn determines the price per ream.

Hence it is customary in the paper trade to refer to paper as 40 pound, 80 pound, or 100 pound stock, meaning the number of pounds required to make a ream of a known sized sheet of the stock in question. A bill for paper properly expresses all of these particulars. For example: 32 X 45 /500/105 @5 cts., $5.25, signifies that the sheets in question are 32" X 45" in size, that 1 ream, containing 500 such sheets, will weigh 105 pounds, which, at 5 cts. per pound, would amount to $5.25 a ream.

Stock Sizes of Paper. -The following sizes of various grades of paper were formerly recognized generally by the trade and kept on hand in most wholesale printing houses. This is still the case to some extent; but the sizes recognized by these trade terms vary considerably, and the present tendency in the trade appears to be in favor of dropping the use of these trade terms, and in buying or selling to quote, in all cases, the size of the sheet only: