What Does This Mean?

[HaroldDesign]

Call me stupid, but I haven't seen this before.
What does 20M mean for quantity?

 

[Rising]

Quantity of what exactly? Roll of vinyl- 20 metres length!?

 

[bob]

Call me stupid, but I haven't seen this before.
What does 20M mean for quantity?

M is printerese for 1000.

 

[jono91]

might mean 20 meters in the metric system


...you know the units of measurement that makes much more sense than feet and inches but america doesn't like lol :Australia

 

[HaroldDesign]

M is printerese for 1000.

Thanks Bob. That's what made sense to me, but I wasn't sure.

 

[imagep]

bob is correct. 20m would mean 20,000

In offset printing we always use "m" to denote thousand.