Paper size impossible to encounter ISO standard papers in day-to-day uses, with "Carta" (Letter), "Oficio" (Government-Legal) and "Doble carta" (Ledger/Tabloid) being nearly universal. In Canada, US paper sizes are a de facto standard. The government, however, also uses ISO paper sizes. There is an additional paper size, , to which the name "Government-Letter" was given by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG). It was prescribed by Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce to be used for US government forms, apparently to enable discounts from the purchase of paper for schools, but more likely due to the standard use of trimming
Chicago Ledger Chicago Ledger The "Chicago Ledger" was a story paper published in Chicago, Illinois from 1872 until 1924. Put out by the Ledger Company and edited by Samuel H. Williams, the "Ledger" was a boilerplate literary magazine. Such periodicals were printed using engraved steel sheets. The plates, or casts of them, were then sent out to be printed and inserted into other newspapers. "Ledger" subscriptions originally sold for $1 for 52 issues and, by 1879, the paper had a circulation of 10,000. Although begun as a literary paper of "a good class," the "Ledger" eventually became more melodramatic in tone. In