Print Guides | Paper, Stocks and Finishing

Reference notes from a working print floor: the stocks we buy, the weights we keep on the shelf and what the certification on the label actually means. Written from our own delivery notes, not from a supplier brochure.

Most paper guides on printing websites are the same chart, copied from the same catalogue, listing weights nobody in that building has ever run. This section only covers material we handle: the sheet sizes we order, the grain direction we specify, the roll widths on the large format machines and the environmental marks that come printed on the wrapper.

A guide goes up when there is something first hand to say. There is no schedule, because a page written to fill a schedule ends up competing with our own product pages for the same searches, and then both of them lose.

The guides

The paper we actually hold Every stock we keep on the floor, with the weight, the sheet size, the grain direction and the certification. Not a chart copied from a supplier catalogue.

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