How Do You Read A Printers Ruler?
A printer’s ruler is a standard measuring device installed along with the printer. The ruler allows the user to line up paper dimensions for accurate printing on standard sheets of paper, or with multiple sizes of photo paper and envelopes. Printers that don’t have this feature are more difficult to line up paper dimensions, and you could easily end up with a crooked printing. Properly aligning your printers ruler is a good skill to learn especially when you have to print a large quantity of documents, wether for work or for personal use. Identify the size of paper that you’ll be printing on. Standard printer paper dimensions are 8.5 inches by 11 inches, but many different sizes of paper are available. Look at the ruler on the printer and locate the hash marks that denote paper size. The hash marks are either above or below the ruler depending on your model of printer. Locate the letter size abbreviations adjacent to the hash marks. These abbreviations stand for paper size. For example
