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My parents used to run a tiny printing business from home, and we still have quite a bit of spare SRA2 paper. I believe that's the size my dad's little offset printing press used to take. (Unless it was SRA3? Not sure.) Every so often I grab another handful and cut/trim it down to A4 so we don't have to buy more printer paper. :p

I do miss my dad's guillotine, though. That thing was a *proper* paper cutter: wind the guide stops to the correct size using the illuminated, magnified scale, put 1000 sheets in at once, align everything with the guide stops and crank down the gigantic clamp to hold the paper in place, close the safety guards, turn the key (yes, it had an actual key to prevent accidental use), push the two buttons, one on each side of the machine, simultaneously, and in a single movement it would slice through the equivalent of a phone book like it was hot butter. So nice.