Printing Media Sizes Printing media comes is standard sizes. The size is chosen primarily because of the sizes accepted by the printing machines, both in digital and offset. It is very important to understand the size of the media available because that will help us calculate the number of products we can ‘fit’ on a single sheet. When designing or creating a print product, the first thing one has to define and specify is the final size of the product. Then one has to calculate the number of such products that can be created from a standard size of paper available for the printer. For example, if the product is an A6 postcard, the total number of cards that can fit in an A3 sheet is 8. To understand this, first, let us understand the types of sizes. Standard Paper Sizes: Size Name width x height (in mm) width x height (in inches) Comments A0 841 × 1189 33.11 × 46.81 A1 594 × 841 23.39 × 33.11 Use for wide format media and CAD / CAM drawings A2 420 × 594 16.54 × 23.3...
