Chanpory Rith
Jan 15, 2007
For designers, size matters. And that size is the 11x17 paper format. Tabloid size paper is vital for printing large design comps, diagrams, and charts, but it’s a pain to file and organize.
In a quest to organize the piles of tabloid size papers at work, I recently stumbled upon the aptly named 11x17.com.
While most office supply stores cater to the 8.5x11 format, 11x17.com has virtually everything for managing and organizing tabloid size paper. That includes hard-to-find file folders, binders, boxes, and cabinets.
Designers will find the design of 11x17.com’s website an eyesore, but the usefulness of its product line outweighs the site’s modest appearance.
To those outside of the USA, I had no luck finding a similar retailer for A3 size paper. Does anyone know of one?
4 Comments
Michael Long
6:38 am
In the UK it is farily easy to find A3 folders and ring binders in places like Staples or any large office supply store. I imagine it’s much the same all over the world (a benefit of using an international standard)
Morris Slerkote
9:05 am
I would like to find some normally priced envelopes that will allow me to store 20 to 50 sheets of 11x17 paper in a regular file cabinet. I would like to stack those envelopes flat in the drawers.
The width of most file cabinets that I have seen have a drawer width at the bottom of 11-3/4 inches. So the outside of the envelope could be 11-3/4 inches wide at the most. 11-1/2 inches wide would be better.
The length of the envelope is not particularly important except it must be longer than 17 inches. My file cabinets are twenty inches deep.
I would buy the envelopes in quantities of 100 or less. I use about two per week.
Lynn Smith
10:48 am
Ikea.com has a nice looking set of white drawers on casters available on their website. Here is the link: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30104322 They have sites for other countries on the main page. In case the above link doesn’t work, you’re looking for a unit named “Alex”. The description says it is designed for A2 sized paper (US equivilent “C” - about 2 tabloid size pages near as I can tell)
Office Supplies
5:51 am
I guess we’re lucky here in the UK, like Micheal said, we have a general A3, A4, A5 etc standardised sizes of paper. I’d think demand for tabloid paper and accessories would be extremely small.