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From: cook@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (John M. Cook)
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Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing and Laser Printers
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Date: 22 Jan 90 16:47:36 GMT
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In article <28843@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>|laser printer that will except a 11" x 16" sheet of paper.  This is
>|larger than legal size paper.  Many people, mainly in sales, mislead
>|me because they thought that legal size paper was 11 x 16 when it is
>|really 8.5 x 14.
>This is really almost "B" size. You're going to be publishing newsletters
>when you get confused about "except" and "accept"? They don't even sound
>the same. And you don't know paper sizes? Ugh.
>
>Phil Ngai,

Would you have prefered if I posted that our newspaper page is 
10.8 by 16.15 inches, pick-up one of your local pennysavers and measure 
for yourself it is a standard.  But for you I can say I need a 11 by 17 
inch laser printer.  Besides I'm not a English major and I don't 
proofread my postings.

John Cook