5 mm dot grid paper, A5
A5 with 5 mm dot spacing is the de facto bullet journal standard — it is what Leuchtturm1917 and Rhodia use, so anything you plan here transfers to a shop-bought notebook without re-measuring.
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Why 5 mm and not 4 or 6
Five millimetres is small enough that a dot never lands in the middle of where you want to write, and large enough that a page of them still reads as white space rather than grey texture. Most handwriting sits comfortably at two squares tall. If you write small, 4 mm gives finer control; 6 mm and above starts to feel like a coarse grid rather than a guide.
Printing A5 on a Letter or A4 printer
Most home printers cannot feed A5 directly. Print the A5 page onto A4 or Letter at 100% scale and trim, or use your printer driver's "2 pages per sheet" option to get two A5 sheets side by side on one A4 page. What you must not do is let the driver scale to fit — that silently shrinks the grid and your 5 mm spacing becomes 4.7 mm.
Dot size matters more than people expect
The default dot weight here is deliberately light. Dark, heavy dots compete with your writing and show through thin paper. If you are printing on 80 gsm copier paper, keep the weight low and the colour light grey; if you are using 100 gsm or heavier and want the dots to survive being scanned, darken them.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.