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Your Guide to Paper sizes

At Harcourt Litho we have presses which can take a maximum sheet size of B2, 520mm x 720mm.

The most common printer sheet size is SRA sizes, below we show pictorally what sizes and its name, and how they are calculated out of a larger sheet size.

For example an A3 sheet (420mm x 297mm) comes out of an A2 sheet (594mm x 420mm) twice.

The SRA & B sizes work in exactly the same way, the additional area on these sheet sizes are to allow for bleeds, grips, colour bars etc. (see our A-Z guide)

The most economical way of producing a job is to get the maximum amount of pages out of a particular sheet size or leaving the least amount of wasted space.

If you have for example a job that is 10000 A5 leaflets

We would calculate this to be produced most economically as 8 A5 pages out of an A2 sheet. Allowing 1250 sheets.

Ideally specify the longest dimension first, and be specific if the job is to be portrait or landscape.

A6 - 148mm x 105mm   

A5 - 210mm x 148mm

A4 - 297mm x 210mm

A3 - 420mm x 297mm

A2 - 594mm x 420mm

1/3 A4 - 210mm x 99mm

A4 6 page - 630mm x 297mm

A5 6 page - 444mm x 210mm

Printers B5 - 240mm x 165mm

Printers B4 - 330mm x 240mm

Printers B2 - 660mm x 480mm

 

C Sizes

These are given to Envelopes.

For example an A4 leaflet is placed in a C4 Envelope. EASY!   

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Harcourt Litho are based in Swansea, South Wales. We service all of the UK (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Ireland) and all its cities including:

Aberdeen, Armagh, Bangor, Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, London, Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Durham, Edinburgh, Ely, Exeter, Glasgow, Gloucester, Hereford, Inverness, Kingston upon Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Lisburn, Liverpool, Londonderry, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newport, Newry, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Ripon, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southampton, St Albans, St Davids, Stirling, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Swansea, Truro, Wakefield, Wells, Westminster, Winchester, Wolverhampton, Worcester, York

We regularly supply businesses in many counties including

Avon, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Borders, Buckinghamshire, Carmarthenshire, Cambridgeshire, Central, Cheshire, Cleveland, Clwyd, Cornwall, County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry, County Tyrone, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Dumfries and Galloway, Durham, Dyfed, East Sussex, Essex, Fife, Gloucestershire, Grampian, Greater Manchester, Gwent, Gwynedd County, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Highlands and Islands, Humberside, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Lothian, Merseyside, Mid Glamorgan, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Powys, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, South Glamorgan, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Strathclyde, Suffolk, Surrey, Tayside, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, West Glamorgan, West Midlands, West Sussex, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire