Three-ring binder paper
College-ruled paper with punch guides for a standard US three-ring binder, and the margin already widened to clear the rings.
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The holes are where a real punch puts them
North American three-ring is a fixed pattern: three holes 4.25 inches apart center to center, a quarter inch across, half an inch in from the edge. The guides on this sheet sit exactly there, so you can punch against them and the sheet will seat in any standard binder. Print at 100%, because a page scaled to 94% puts the outer holes about a quarter inch too close together and they will not go on the rings.
The left margin widens automatically
This is the part most printable binder paper gets wrong. If the ruling runs to within 10 mm of the edge, the rings pass straight through the first inch of every line and anything written there is destroyed the first time the binder is closed hard. Switching on punch guides widens the binding margin to clear the holes, so the writing area starts where it should. The red margin rule sits just inside that.
Punch a stack, not a sheet
A desktop three-hole punch will take fifteen to twenty sheets at once, and the guides only need to be visible on the top one. Print the stack, square the edges, punch through the lot, and the alignment is more consistent than punching sheets individually. If you are using graph or dot grid in the same binder, print those with the same setting and everything lines up.
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.