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Formats

Here you’ll find our common formats for web offset printing.

Portrait format (measurements in cm)

  Saddle stitch binding (max. format) Adhesive binding (max. format Standard format
A3 30,6 x 47,6 30,3 x 47,6 29,7 x 42
- 6 pages per web product, the overall volume should be divisible by 16 or 8.
- Paper grain direction: “wrong”
A4 23,6 x 30,2 23,3 x 30,2 21,0 x 29,7
- 32 pages per web product, the overall volume should be divisible by 32 or 16.
- Paper grain direction: “right”
A5 15,1 x 23,2 14,8 x 23,2 14,8 x 21,0
- 32 pages per web product, the overall volume should be divisible by 32 or 16.
- Paper grain direction: “wrong”
A6 11,6 x 14,7 11,3 x 14,7 The maximum format is more favourable here as, due to technical reasons, normal formats result in an additional paper waste of 11mm per page.
- Paper orientation: "right"

Landscape format (measurements in cm)

  Saddle stitch binding (max. format) Adhesive binding (max. format) Standard format
A4 30,6 x 23,2 30,3 x 23,2 29,7 x 21
- 32 pages per web product, the overall volume should be divisible by 32 or 16.
- Paper grain direction: “wrong”
A5 23,2 x 14,7 22,9 x 14,7 21,0 x 14,7
- only possible as two-up processing, 2x 32 pages per web product
- Paper grain direction: “right”

Delta special formats (measurements in cm)

  • max. product height format: 19.3 cm
  • min. product width format: 11.6 (shaped 11.3 cm)
  • Paper grain direction: “right”
  max. product width format Saddle stitch binding Adhesive binding
I. at 48 pages per web product 11,6 x 19,3 11,3 x 19,3
II. at 36 pages per web product 15,6 x 19,3 15,3 x 19,3
III. at 24 pages per web product 23,6 x 19,3 23,3 x 19,3

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