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A Teacher's Request for a Plain Sheet of Notebook Paper |
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You would think with all our technology a simple plain sheet of notebook paper | ||||||
would not be an unreasonable request. My wife had used her last sheet of paper | ||||||
and did not want to travel to the store at eleven o'clock at night to obtain a pack of | ||||||
notebook paper, so she asked me if I could design her a sheet of notebook paper | ||||||
from the computer. Working with web site designs, I thought this would be a | ||||||
great opportunity to provide not only my wife with a "plain" sheet of notebook | ||||||
paper but I could make it world wide, where everyone would have the ability | ||||||
to print their own paper, with lines and borders meeting the specifications within | ||||||
the limited parameters of paper, printers, web connections, hosting, servers, and | ||||||
our own knowledge of using our "computers". | ||||||
Feeling very pleased with myself, I announced to my wife that I had designed a | ||||||
sheet of notebook paper on the internet and gave her the web location. This is no | ||||||
small feat, considering the exacting requirements of measuring, testing, printing, | ||||||
positioning the lines and borders to the exact pixel location. Even the sizing of the | ||||||
pixels and resolution of the pixels have to be considered and as I found out have to | ||||||
be alternated to accomplish the task. | ||||||
My wife goes to the computer, prints the page and returns with two red lines. | ||||||
She asked, "Why do I see only two red lines?" After studying the issue a moment, | ||||||
I proudly announced that she had the background printing feature turned off on her | ||||||
computer. "What do you mean I have the background feature turned off?", she | ||||||
replied. I went to her computer and turned on the background printing from her | ||||||
internet options and presto, there appeared the needed "blue" lines for the | ||||||
paper. She printed the page again and I noticed that it came out with the sides cut | ||||||
off. I informed her she didn't have her page margins set correctly. The next | ||||||
question was "How do I set my margins?" I showed her how to specify her | ||||||
margin settings. Quarter inch margins, no header or footer and the printer will | ||||||
default the bottom. With the margins set, she printed the page, looked up and said, | ||||||
"This is college rule, I needed plain." Surely, people wondered why at one o'clock | ||||||
in the morning, I was buying a package of notebook paper. Click here for plain. | ||||||