Grammage ream developed because such a size can easily be cut into sixteen 6 by book sized sheets without significant waste. Early newsprint presses printed sheets in size, and so the ream dimensions for newsprint became , with 500 sheets to a ream. Newsprint was made from ground wood pulp, and ground wood hanging paper (wallpaper) was made on newsprint machines. Newsprint was used as wrapping paper, and the first paper bags were made from newsprint. The newsprint ream standard also became the standard for packaging papers, even though in packaging papers kraft pulp rather than ground wood was used for
Paper size the sheet of paper is folded in half widthwise, let "c" be the length of the new short side: "c" = . If we take the ratio of the newly folded paper we have: formula_3 Therefore, the aspect ratio is preserved for the new dimensions of the folded paper. Weights are easy to calculate as well: a standard A4 sheet made from 80 g/m paper weighs 5 g (as it is of an A0 page, measuring 1 m), allowing one to easily compute the weight—and associated postage rate—by counting the number of sheets used. The advantages of basing a paper