Originally Posted by IO540
Yes; a part of it is that if you take the normal (e.g. UK) AIP plates and print them out in A5 size, few people over 45 can read them without reading glasses
One can somewhat alleviate this problem by cropping the margins off an A4 plate and fitting the result into an A5. It's only a few percent larger than uncropped, but it makes a noticeable difference.
In a similar manner, I cropped the margins off A5 plates to load them into a bookreader (Nook).