![]() ![]() It also became the name for any booklet small enough to be made from a single quire of paper. An 1826 French manual on typography complained that cording quires (usually containing some salvageable paper) from the Netherlands barely contained a single good sheet. ![]() The printer Philip Luckombe in a book published in 1770 mentions both 24- and 25-sheet quires he also details printer's wastage, and the sorting and recycling of damaged cassie quires. These outside quires were known as cassie quires (from French cassée, 'broken'), or "cording quires" and had only 20 sheets to the quire. This last meaning is preserved in the modern Italian term for quire, quinterno di carta.įormerly, when paper was packed at the paper mill, the top and bottom quires were made up of slightly damaged sheets ("outsides") to protect the good quires ("insides"). four leaves, eight sides) and a quinion is five sheets (ten leaves, 20 sides). two leaves, four sides) is a bifolium (plural bifolia) a binion is a quire of two sheets (i.e. A quire made of a single folded sheet (i.e. The term quaternion (or sometimes quaternum) designates such a quire. In the Middle Ages, a quire (also called a " gathering") was most often formed of four folded sheets of vellum or parchment, i.e. Later, when bookmaking switched to using paper and it became possible to easily stitch 5 to 7 sheets at a time, the association of quaire with four was quickly lost. modern French cahier), from Latin quaternum, 'by fours', 'fourfold'. The current word quire derives from Old English quair or guaer, from Old French quayer, cayer, (cf. ) Quires of 15, 18 or 20 sheets have also been used, depending on the type of paper. (As an old UK and US measure, in some sources, a quire was originally 24 sheets. Quires of 25 sheets are often used for machine-made paper, while quires of 24 sheets are often used for handmade or specialised paper of 480-sheet reams. The usual meaning is 25 sheets of the same size and quality: 1⁄ 20 of a ream of 500 sheets. Units Writing paper measurements 25 sheets = 1 quire 500 sheets = 20 quires = 1 ream 1,000 sheets = 40 quires = 2 reams = 1 bundle 5,000 sheets = 200 quires = 10 reams = 5 bundles = 1 bale 200,000 sheets = 8,000 quires = 400 reams = 200 bundles = 40 bales = 1 pallet 'Short' paper measurements 24 sheets = 1 'short' quire 480 sheets = 20 'short' quires = 1 'short' ream 960 sheets = 40 'short' quires = 2 'short' reams = 1 'short' bundle 4,800 sheets = 200 'short' quires = 10 'short' reams = 5 'short' bundles = 1 'short' bale Posters and printing measurements 516 sheets (= 21½ 'short' quires) = 1 printer's ream 1,032 sheets = 2 printer's reams = 1 printer's bundle 5,160 sheets = 5 printer's bundles = 1 printer's bale Cover and index paper 250 sheets = 1 ream Quire Ī quire of paper is a measure of paper quantity. units such as quires and bales, there are ISO and DIN standards for the ream. Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use. ![]()
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