Result: 3× Paper
Paper is a shaped crafting recipe that uses 3 items: 3 Sugar Cane. Place the ingredients exactly in the pattern shown above. The pattern can sit anywhere on the grid as long as its shape stays the same. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table.
… and 2 more recipes that use Paper.
You need 3 Sugar Cane — 3 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 3× Paper.
Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.
It is a shaped recipe: the arrangement matters. You can shift the pattern around the grid, but the shape must stay the same.
Paper is an ingredient in 14 crafting recipes, for example Book, Bordure Indented Banner Pattern and Cartography Table.