Double A, A4 Ream Paper, A4 80 gsm, 1 Ream, 500 Sheets, White

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Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. The common letter-size paper used in the United States has dimensions slightly different from A4 paper. Even after the paper is trimmed to a smaller size, it is still categorized by the weight of its basic size sheet. One quire is 1/20 of the ream, doesn’t matter which type of ream we are taking: 1 (long) ream = 20 (long) quires = 500 sheets.

Copy paper is the most commonly used type of paper for printing and copying, and it is available in various weights and brightness levels. Each case of Staples copy paper contains three reams of paper, with 500 sheets per ream, for a total of 1500 long-lasting sheets. The word 'ream' derives from Old French reyme, from Spanish resma, from Arabic rizmah 'bundle' (of paper), from rasama, 'collect into a bundle'.

The short answer is that 500 sheets of bond paper with a size of 17″ by 22″ have a weight of 20 pounds. To determine the ream weight of any given size sheet, multiply the square inches in the given size by the given basis weight; divide the result by the square inch area of the basic size. ream at The Online Quantinary (yet see also quire at the same site for historical evidence of 500-sheet reams as early as 1590. An 1826 French manual on typography complained that cording quires (usually containing some salvageable paper) from the Netherlands barely contained a single good sheet. These include the quality of paper, with a variety of thicknesses and quality, the amount of wood pulp required to make a tree increases.

This means that over two million trees are felled every day for global paper consumption, meaning four billion trees are cut every year to serve our paper needs.

Several European words for quire keep the meaning of "book of paper": Geman Buch von Papier, Danish bog papir, Dutch bock papier. lb (120 gsm) paper: This is perfect for high-quality reports, brochures, and other marketing materials.