8x10

[john doc]

Hi all, Im looking to print some photo's on my canon mg6150 printer, however im finding it hard to locate 8x10 paper, I can find some canon paper on e'bay but £15.00 for 20 sheets seems a tad to pricey, is there any other makes of paper that i can get that's not as costly, any help with this would be great. john.

[GeoffWessex]

Use A4 and, if necessary, cut neatly to 8x10. If framing, there's normally a matte that the excess edges would sit under.... if it's to fill a frame (like a clip frame) then it would be done with a neat cut, preferably a guillotine, as used by framers. 8x10 is not a format that matches photographs anyway: it's just a traditional picture size, coming from the days of 8x10 and 5x4 film cameras.

[silversnapper1]

Can't add to that Geoff.

[jet_kit]

I agree with Geoff, just print on A4 and trim to suit.
Back in the good (?) old days there was a plethora of paper sizes, 2½ x 3½, 3½ x 5, Postcard, 5 x 7, 6¼ x 8½, 8 x 10, 10 x 12, 12 x 16, 16 x 20. Most of these were arrived at to fit the film formats of the day, 127, 120, 35mm, Quarter-Plate, 4x5, Half-Plate, Full-Plate and 8x10 but it was a mess. Obviously Picture Frame sizes followed suit.
Around the earlier 70's someone decided that a ratio of 4:5 was the 'Ideal Format' and a few cameras sprang up to provide that ratio. Of course a new paper size of 4 x 5 arrived and 8 x 10 became the industry standard - but not for long. Europe to the rescue, along came the A series; A0, A1 etc and A4 is now the current Euro standard.
America is still stubbornly hanging onto inches, gallons and pounds will still take at least another decade to wake up and metricate. The camera market will follow suit and we will then see sensor ratios change to suite the A format.
Frame sizes are, of course, already available in A series.

[john doc]

Thanks for the replys, i was actually thinking of going down the road of cutting A4 paper to size but i thought that i would see if anyone knew were to buy paper in 8x10 first as you can still get pictures printed in that size, but many thanks anyway, john.

[GeoffWessex]

Yes, I suppose there are three groups of image sizing now and they tend to be operating at cross-purposes......

Photographic - which is, unless taken on a medium format or bigger camera, 4:3.

Paper - generally the A, B or C 'codes' (A0 to A6 and the various specialist labels, envelopes etc) - used in almost all the world but, of course, the USA (and therefore Canada too) use "Letter sizes" and other variants (but then the USA still uses gallons and don't bother asking for a kilo or liter of anything).

Framing - although you can get appropriate sizes of mattes and frames from specialist shops, the High Street shops still mainly work on 8x10s and other traditional ratios.

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by GeoffWessex

(but then the USA still uses gallons and don't bother asking for a kilo or liter of anything).

OT: Not to mention that it is a US gallon and smaller than anyone else's gallon (3.8 litre instead of 4.5 litres - no idea what that is in pints or ounces).