scope:

This standard provides the following specifications for adding machine paper rolls: terminology; roll widths; roll length; paper substance and quality, thickness, finish, color, brightness, opacity, tearing and bursting strength; diameter of rolls; winding and cutting, core materials; diameter of core and spindle hole; roll end sealing, and quantity packaging and cartooning

Purpose

This standard is a revision of American National Standard Specifications for Noncarbonized, Single-Ply, Adding Machine Paper Rolls, ANSI X4.8-1973, and is intended to update terminologies, technology changes, and test methods, as well as to add metric size information. While this standard's title implies that this docment covers only adding machine paper rolls,: it should be noted that many "Point of Sale"9POS) devices now on the market utlize roll paper with the sme basic sizes and specificatins. Accordingly, this standard may also apply to that newly developing product line.