| Poster Sizes |
|
Name
|
Size in inches
|
Size in centimetres
|
|
Quarter Crown
|
(Unknown)
|
(Unknown)
|
|
Demy
|
8 ½” x 5 ½”
|
21 ½ x 13 cm
|
|
Mini Quad
|
12” x 16”
|
31 x 41cm
|
|
(Unknown)
|
13” x 9”
|
33 x 23 cm
|
|
Crown
|
15” x 20”
|
38 x 50cm
|
|
Single Crown
|
15” x 20” (same as Crown)
|
|
|
Crown Folio (CF)
|
15” x 10”
|
38 x 26cm
|
|
Double Crown (DC)
|
30” x 20”
|
76 x 51 cm
|
|
Royal
|
20” x 25”
|
50 x 64 cm
|
|
British half sheet
|
22” x 28”
|
56 x 76cm
|
|
British one sheet
|
27” x 40”
|
74 x 151cm
|
|
Quad Crown (QC)
|
30” x 40”
|
76 x 102 cm
|
|
Double Royal (DR)
|
40” x 25”
|
102 x 64 cm
|
|
Quad
|
40” x 30”
|
102 x 75 cm
|
|
Quad Crown Broadside
|
40” x 30”
|
102 x 76cm
|
|
Quad Royal (QR)
|
40” x 50”
|
102 x 127 cm
|
|
4 sheet
|
40” x 60”
|
151 x 101cm
|
|
Single Sheet
|
60” x 40”
|
152 x 102 cm
|
|
16 sheet
|
120” x 80”
|
200 x 300 cm
|
|
32 sheet
|
120” x 160”
|
304 x 406 cm
|
|
48 sheet
|
120” x 240”
|
304 x 609 cm
|
Vertical dimensions
should precede width, although in some cases this was not clear.
Information for this table is taken from:
Moriarty, C., Rose, J., and Games, N., Abram
Games: Graphic Designer – Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means,
2003, p.187; Onslow’s Auctions, Catalogue,
PS3103/99, March 31 1999, P&D, ‘Print and Display Ltd.
- Design Den - Outdoor Specs’, http://www.printanddisplay.ie/new_designDen_outdoorSpecs1.htm,
accessed August 17 2002; Primedia ‘Primedia Outdoor - Material
Specs’, http://www.primeoutdoor.co.za/material.cfm,
accessed August 17 2002; Learn About Movie Posters ‘British
Posters’, http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/index/foreign/british.asp,
Accessed August 17 2002; Gleeson, J., Miller’s Collecting Prints & Posters, 1997, p.150; ‘Paper
Sizes’, Livingston, A. and Livingston, I., The
Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Graphic Design and Designers,
1992, p.150, 162; Edkins, J., ‘Printing Terms’, http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/print.htm,
accessed August 17 2002. |
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