Printable Graph Paper

Lined Paper With Margin

Ruled paper with a red margin line 1¼ inches from the left edge, movable anywhere across the page.

8.5 × 11.0 in · 215.9 × 279.4 mm
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Lined Paper With Margin in two steps

  1. Set it up

    Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.

    Settings for Lined Paper With Margin: paper size, grid and orientation
  2. The finished sheet

    Lined Paper With Margin on US Letter, exactly as it prints.

    Lined Paper With Margin on US Letter, printable example sheet

The margin does three jobs

It reserves space for marking, so a teacher's comments do not land on top of the work. It keeps a consistent left edge, which is what makes a stack of pages look tidy. And it clears the punch holes on filed paper.

Which of those you care about decides the position. Measured from the edge of the sheet, marking wants a generous 40 mm; a ring binder needs about 32 mm; a tidy left edge is happy with 20.

Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.

Questions

Where should the margin line go?

1.25 inches — 32 mm from the edge of the sheet — is the standard, and clears a three-hole punch. The Margin position box measures from the 10 mm page margin, so that reads as 22; set it to 30 for a 40 mm marking margin.

Can I change the margin colour?

Yes. Red is traditional, but the colour picker takes anything, and grey is less distracting if you are writing for yourself.