RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Paper Terms

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: Paper quantities (Gathering term; do not assign)

:     SN: Gathering term, do not use; index under narrower term.

Reams

. Envelope reams

.     SN: Use for papers generally used for envelopes, in lots of 504
. sheets.

. Folio reams

.     SN: Use for reams "of paper supplied flat," i.e. unfolded; see
. Labarre, 109.

. Imperfect paper

.     SN: Use for reams
. "not made up to the full number of a printer's ream, i.e. 516 sheets";
. Labarre, 130.

. Inside reams

.     SN: Use for
. "480 sheets or 20 inside quires of 24 [good] sheets each";
. Labarre, 222.

. Mill reams

.     SN: Use for handmade papers to designate
. "two grades of the same paper ... 18 quires of insides or perfect paper, each quire containing 24 sheets, and two quires of outsides or inferior, broken, or damaged paper, of only 20 sheets each, one on top and one on the bottom, making a total of 472";
. Labarre, 222.

. Printer's reams

.     SN: Use for "21 1/2 quires of 24 good sheets, i.e. 516 in all";
. Labarre, 222.

. Quad reams

.     SN: Use for a fourth of a folio ream,
. "the result of cutting a flat ream into quarto sheets ... and packing these in 500s";
. Labarre, 217.

. Standard reams

.     SN: Used in the United States to designate 500 sheets.

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