About ECG Strip Paper
ECG chart paper was never designed to be looked at. It is a measuring surface: white thermal stock overprinted with a 1 mm red grid so dense the sheet reads pale salmon, then burned by a heated stylus that leaves a near-black line of constant weight. No ink, no pen, no taper.
The grid is red for a working reason — it drops out under red-channel scanning while the trace survives. Every mark on the sheet means something: 40 ms across a fine square, 0.1 mV up it. This system inherits that discipline. The grid is the surface, and nothing floats above it.
- Origin
- Global hospital standard — no single country of origin
- Era
- 1950–1990 strip-chart and twelve-lead cabinet era; the stock is still a current hospital consumable
- Key figures
- Willem Einthoven · Emanuel Goldberger · Frank Wilson
- Movements
- Clinical instrumentation graphics · Strip-chart recording · Thermal-print consumables
ECG Strip Paper design spec
Colors
Typography
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