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In article <1ict41EINN7qk@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
}walters@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tim Walters) writes:
}>Printers in Germany and Japan use different sizes for the B series.
}>The German value is specified by DIN; I believe the Japanese value is
}>specified by some JIS standard:
}
}>        DIN             JIS    
}>B4      250x353         257x364
}>B5      176x250         182x257
}>B6      125x176         128x182
}
}That's strange news!
}
}However, the DIN standard says that it is compatible with the ISO standard,
}only the tolerances allowed by DIN are smaller than those allowed by ISO,
}which isn't an incompatibility.
}
}How have the JIS people defined the B series? In ISO and DIN, it is
}just the geometric mean between two A series sizes (geometric mean of
}a and b is sqrt(a*b)).
}
}Still confused ...

Sorry, I don't have the formal JIS standard, I only know that two
Japanese printers we have inhouse, from IBM and NEC, have B4 paper
trays with the above sizes. The manuals refer to a JIS standard, but I
haven't tracked it down.

}Perhaps you mean the following: DIN/ISO define paper end formats. You write
}'printers ... use'. Do you mean the size of the paper delivered to the printer
}before it is sent to the offset printing machine and cut to e.g. B4? Ok,
}that is not the 'paper end format' that is of interest for the common user.

I mean both the paper tray size and the paper size. I believe that B4
is a popular size in Japan. Could someone from Japan who knows more
about this shed some light on the issue?
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Tim Walters, Interleaf          uunet!leafusa!walters, walters@HQ.Ileaf.com