Lined paper, Legal size
College ruling on Legal paper, which fits about nine more lines per page than the usual wide-ruled legal pad.
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College ruling on a legal sheet
A standard legal pad is wide ruled at about 8.7 mm, which suits large handwriting and wastes paper for everyone else. College ruling at 7.1 mm on the same Legal sheet gives you roughly nine more lines per page. Over a long meeting or a deposition that is a page or two saved, and fewer page turns means fewer places where a thought gets split.
Why Legal persists
Legal survives in law, accounting and some government filing, largely because a schedule or a long list that fits on one page needs no carry-forward, and every carry-forward is a chance to transcribe something wrong. It is also simply what the surrounding documents are, and a file of mixed page sizes is a file that catches and tears at the edges.
Feeding Legal reliably
Most home printers accept Legal but will not select it automatically, and the usual failure is the driver quietly scaling a 14 inch page onto an 11 inch sheet. That squeezes the ruling and puts the lines closer than you set them. Choose the paper size explicitly in the print dialog, and use the manual feed tray if your printer has one, since it handles the longer stock more reliably than the main cassette.
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.