A1 or A2 graph paper?

[xela]

Years ago I had a job that came with an old-school desk complete with blotter. The blotter in this case was pad 44x34 quarter-inch graph paper. I really quite liked having that to jot quick notes to myself on, and have for some reason especially found myself wanting something like it in this job.

I have, in the intervening years, developed a bit of a fetish for things metric. I found an A3 graph pad on Amazon (which turned out to be drop-shipped from Japan, but with free shipping, so ... whatever). Which has been sufficient to the task, and is presently covered with my notes — but is really too small. A2 is probably also smaller than I want — but, I suspect, more likely to be available. A1 would be ideal; A0 would be bigger than my desk, but I'd cope.

So that I found myself Googling again the other day. Which led to the discovery that, in some parts of the English-speaking world, A2 "jotter" pads are a thing. But not, that I could readily find, retailed in anything other than plain white paper. And then I found myself looking at the website of a wholesaler in New Zealand, going So if I ordered 1000 custom-printed, how many other weirdos like me would I have to find to break even....?

At which point I was, like, Okay, I need to stop chasing this chimera. But maybe if I ask the Internet....

So here I am. I suspect there exist places in the world (perhaps even most of them) where one can walk into a stationery store near any university and walk out with an A1 graph pad. If that describes your local stationery store, I'd love to hear about it....

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Edit: I seem to have understated my metric fetish above. I am well aware that I could get large-format Imperial graph paper in any of a number of places, both local and online. I may even buy some when my A3 pad runs low. But in the mean time, I'm looking for a rather specific sort of nerdy fulfillment for my materialist desires.

Comments

[mary-anne wolf (from livejournal.com)]

If I wanted to find such a thing locally, I would phone the Acton branch of
http://www.qandp.com/p/3/about-us

[alierak.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no, but you ask the most interesting questions. Here is this suboptimal answer at which I have abandoned my lunchtime surfing trip:

A1 gridded flip charts

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

That seems really large for any sort of graph pad - ~2'x3'??
I'd expect it to be rare, specialty product.

"AT-A-GLANCE 2014 Monthly Desk Pad, Black and White, 22 x 17 Inches (SK24-00)" is a size I'd expect...

[jered]

I think this is what you want in A2-ish:
http://www.amazon.com/Alvin-Quadrille-Paper-Inches-1432-11/dp/B000HF6ZS4

Anyway, you're in 'murica, so you want ANSI D size, not A1. We don't use any commie metric system here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#North_American_paper_sizes

[jered]

And similar companies make larger format, generally available at art supply stores. Check info at:
http://www.clearprintpaperco.com/#!1000h-grid-guide/csi7