Sunday 13 May 2012

Fanfold paper

I mentioned the type of paper which was used in line printers back in the 70s and 80s. My friend Hazel Nutt still has a supply, believe it or not, and was kind enough to provide me with a sample.

I am including a photo below.

The paper is 14.5 inches wide and 11 inches high.

There are 22 sprocket holes down either side.

It could accommodate 64 lines of print. Every second line contained 6 narrow green lines, designed to help the eye to travel along the printout, which would presumably have contained columns of data (such as an "aged debtors report"). For some mysterious reason the line numbers were printed beside the green lines ("Johnson, can you explain the figures to me on page 12 line 17")