Paper formats (part III: American and Japanese measurements)

We have already spoken on previous occasions about paper formats ISo regulated in 1922 by the ISO 216 standard and created by the German engineer Dr. Walter Portmann. But in much of America, USA, Canada and Mexico, are not governed by these paper formats, but have their own table of measurements defined and normalized by the ANSI (American National Standards Insitute) in 1995, the so-called Anglo-Saxon measure. Other countries, such as Peru, use the two standards indistinctly and in parallel for their forms.

The American paper measurements are as follows: Letter (216 x 279 mm); Legal (216 x 356 mm); Junior Legal (127 x 203 mm); Tabloid (279 x 432 mm)

On the other hand, the Japanese are not governed by any of the regulations that we have already talked about, they have a table of their own paper measurements very different from all the previous ones, and that are not used in Europe and America:

If you want to convert paper formats, I advise you to go to this page, it can be of great help on many occasions, it is very useful and simple, and it can also be used to convert other types of measurements or currencies, it has many useful options: www.convertworld.com

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