College ruled paper, for A4

College ruled is what middle-school, high-school and college notebooks are printed at, and what a teacher usually means by “lined paper” from around Grade 5 upwards. More words to a page is the whole of the difference.

If handwriting is still growing into the line, print the wide ruled sheet instead. Narrow rules do not make writing neater; they make a child write smaller than they can control, which is the opposite of the thing being practiced.

The rules are drawn as real strokes at real sizes — not a picture of lines, and not a background tint. That matters more than it sounds: browsers drop background graphics when printing unless the reader has gone looking for the setting, so ruled paper made the obvious way looks perfect on screen and comes out of the printer blank. Put a ruler on this one. It is the size it says it is.

This sheet is set for A4 — 210 × 297 mm. Paper size is not a preference here: sent to a printer loaded with something else, the browser shrinks the page to fit, and a ruling that has been shrunk is no longer the size it was chosen for. So there is a second copy of this sheet, ruled identically and measured for US Letter.