Paper Size

The standard consumer paper size in New Zealand is A4 which is 210 x 297 mm. It is not uncommon for people to format their documents in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches, or 215.9 x 279.4 mm- slightly wider and shorter than A4).  This is usually due to not setting the correct settings in your application (many default to the US settings unless changed) or printer driver or obtaining templates or source files from US sources.  When we receive a file in this format we will usually scale it to fit, which means shrinking it to fit 210mm wide – but this means that there will be larger margins at the top and bottom (an extra centimeter than would appear from the document).

The paper size convention is quite interesting – with A0 being the standard, and all smaller sizes being 74% of the total area, or half the longest dimension, or the size above.  You can read more about it on Wikipedia.

Here is a list of paper sizes that we can print and their standard measurements:

Size	Measurement	Printing Technology
A0	841 x 1189 mm	Wide-format
A1	594 x 841 mm	Wide-format
A2	420 x 594 mm	Wide-format
A3	297 x 420 mm	Laser
A4	210 x 297 mm	Laser
A5	148 x 210 mm	Laser
DL	99 x 210 mm	Laser
A6	105 x 148 mm	Laser
A7	74 x 105 mm	Laser