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Do Euro printers say PC LOAD A4?
I think they probably do.
I want to only briefly defend the NA system in terms of naming. I get it, I worked in printing for decades, I know how shitty it all can be. But Letter and Tabloid communicate well for something that is otherwise all the fault of press guys.
Well, one still could do it like how many countries transitioned to the metric system: slap the traditional names onto things that are actually now defined by the metric system, like how China's catty, about 0.60478... kg, became 0.5kg. Just slap "Letter" onto A4.
Thatβs going to make some driver developers very upset. And sensors in printer cartridges that can sense both A4 and Letter.
I say we just balls the whole thing. Screen or pencils.
For technical purposes that need to handle both you can just disambiguate it with "Letter (new)" and "Letter (work or school)"
Is that a subtle dig at Microsoft and their 5 billion different versions of Teams?