Saturday, 7 March 2009

Calculating Paper weights

Calculate the surface area of the job in millimetres.
Divide by 1 million.
Multiply by the paper weight


Example


a 4pp A4 leaflet on 130 gsm paper


297 x 420 = 124,740


124,740 / 1,000,000 = 0.12474


0.124,740 * 130 = 16.2162 gsm or just over 16 gsm!!!


Frank

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