What is the printed page?

It is Difficult to imagine what could be mankind, if it had not been invented paper and the process of printing. On the paper are published works of art, printed scientific works, published interesting news. However, despite all the tremendous variety of books, Newspapers and magazines, it is easy to see that there are not many different size formats of the pages of various publications. How do you measure the size of sheet of a format? The basis for the consideration of this subject is the printed sheet.

Here we will try an unbiased look at the situation through the eyes of an ordinary person. What paper formats in real life he sees around himself? Briefly list them. This is the standard sheets of writing paper, sheets of Newspapers in several different ways, several different formats of books. How to bring this diversity to one basis? If we took as the basis of a standard sheet of paper, then how to Express other formats of papers based on it? But here comes to help a traditional solution to this issue. So historically, as the base size of the selected sheet size is sixty inches by ninety inches, which is called "conditionally printed sheet". Usually books, Newspapers and magazines measure their format in relation to it. The standard is the printed page filled with text with one hand. This notion must be distinguished from the concept of "physical sheet", which means a real printed page of the publication.

Thus, the volume of any printed publications, such as books, Newspapers or magazines can be assessed in relation to the conditional printed sheet. Poprobuem show this with an example. Suppose we are talking about the book, the format of which is 70cm x 100cm /16, which has 192 pages. In order to calculate the volume of the book, you need to conduct the following calculation. Conventionally, the printed sheet has an area equal to 60x90 = 5400 square centimeters, of the physical printed sheet is 70 cm x 100 cm = 7000 square centimeters. The conversion factor is 7000/5400 = 1,29. The final calculation looks like this: (192/16)x1,29=15,48. So, in our case, we can say that the volume of the book under consideration is equal to 15.48 conditional printer's sheets. Thus, it is customary to specify the amount of printed publications.

For the sake of completeness in this matter it should be noted that distributed two of the standard form of the printing sheet. This author printed sheet and the accounting and publishing the sheet. The first of these has multiple methods of measurement (40000 characters spaces included or 700 lines of poetic text or 22-23 ordinary typewritten pages) and is designed to measure the volume of a copyrighted work submitted for printing. The second is the same size as the author printed sheet, but its volume does not include advertising material that is present in this edition.

Printed sheet, as it turned out, can be of different types, which are useful to understand. This concept plays a big role in publishing activities. It allows you to realistically assess the volume of printing work in the publication of books.