Columnar ledger paper
Traditional columnar accounting paper: a description area on the left, a date rule, and money columns on the right each split for cents.
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Reading the layout
The narrow rule near the left is for the date or reference number. The wide area beside it is the description. Each money column on the right is divided close to its right edge — that thin division separates dollars from cents, so figures line up on the decimal without anyone having to write it. Two columns gives you debit and credit; three or four suits a cash book with analysis columns.
Still useful, genuinely
Very few people keep books on paper now, but columnar sheets remain in use for petty cash logs, for site and job costing where a laptop is impractical, for teaching double-entry, and for anyone reconstructing records from receipts before entering them once. Writing figures in columns by hand also catches transposition errors that a spreadsheet will happily accept.
Sizing the columns
More money columns means narrower ones. Four on Letter leaves each about an inch and a quarter, which fits figures up to five digits comfortably. If you are recording larger amounts, use fewer columns or print on Legal or Tabloid in landscape.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.