Need A Ruler? Got A Printer? Sorted!
July 14th, 2006 @ 10:35 am | Filed under Unclassified
One of my colleagues was looking for a ruler and as is always the case, nobody had one or could find one. Why is it that there's never a ruler when you need one? The number of times I end up using the stupidly short ruler on my Swiss Army knife to measure things is ridiculous. I could go out and buy one, but then the Sock Monster would go and steal it and we'd be back at square one.
So my colleague then said "I'll go and print one out". A quick Google search and lo and behold, you can download a variety of rulers to print. Genius! You need never be without one again:
9 Comments on “Need A Ruler? Got A Printer? Sorted!”
July 14th, 2006 at 11:34 |
Erm, okay, you know where this question comes from: how the hell to do you calibrate the accuracy of it? Surely it is dependent on the printer’s calibration.
July 14th, 2006 at 11:35 |
Well you see there are different PDFs to print from at different paper sizes (Letter, A4 and so forth). I’d check for you but the only rulers I have to hand are printouts and they’re all the same!
July 14th, 2006 at 17:04 |
Can you print it out onto plastic, wood or metal? The reason I ask is because when I want a ruler it’s invariably because I want to hit someone with it.
July 14th, 2006 at 18:49 |
Hmmm, might not fit in the printer. What if you printed it out on some of that thick card several times and glued them together to make them thicker?
March 16th, 2009 at 00:17 |
This is paper rulers right? I’ve been reading the comments other than mine
March 16th, 2009 at 16:43 |
Yep. You print them out, cut them out with scissors and you have a quick ruler! Of course, no substitute for a real one but handy nonetheless if you don’t have one to hand.
May 5th, 2009 at 01:50 |
Shouldn’t I need thicker paper like butcher paper to print the ruler or something I need this for my homework and I could just use a paper for that
May 5th, 2009 at 09:05 |
If you want to draw a line then you’ll want to print it out on thicker paper but if you want to measure something then it doesn’t matter what you print it on.
June 23rd, 2009 at 07:56 |
don’t we need to buy a ruler like you can’t get ruler paper for your printer