100 Sheets A4 250gsm White Card - Premium Thick Printing Paper Suitable for All Printers

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Do you already have your print campaign in mind? Then its time to get your artwork print ready. This handy little blog article will help If designing a book be sure to consider the weight of paper on the inside and also your cover requirements. If you want to provide a quality professional finish then opting for heavier paper is your best choice. If you are looking to get across the idea of discounts and value for money then you may decide to run with a lighter paper weight throughout the brochure.

The Lakes Craft collection is a smooth, double-sided, uncoated card available in a range of pastel and intense colours. As it is dyed right through, you are guaranteed the same glorious colour throughout!As a unit of measure, GSM connects the wood pulp producers (who sell by weight) with the paper mills (who work on area). Generally, the higher the GSM the more wood pulp is required to produce the paper. For example, one square metre of 400gsm board will use much more wood pulp than a square metre of 100gsm paper. The weight range of standard office paper, used in your desktop laser printer or photocopier and would rarely be used for brochures. If you are setting a fold in colour, we recommend scoring from a grammage of 170 gsm onwards so that the colour does not split at the fold. If you selected basis weight, choose the appropriate basic sheet size and enter your paper's corresponding basis weight.

Confused by the print industry? You’re not alone. We put together a glossary of terms to help you break down the print jargon We hope this had helped! If you are looking for any of the above then browse our most popular products or get in touch directly. Change the value in the Quantity field to match your requirements to find the total weight you need. The term ‘GSM’ simply stands for ‘Grams per Square Metre’ and is used for measuring paper weight. Put simply, if you were to take a 1m² piece of a certain type of paper, how much would it weigh in grams? Otherwise called copier or printer paper, balance paper is often utilized for letters and note pads in light of the fact that it can be composed and printed on again and again; this makes it suitable for copiers, ink-plane, and laser printers.A low quality sheet used in photo copiers is often 80gsm, where as a letterhead would commonly be printed on either 100gsm or 120gsm. Papers weighing either 130gsm or 150gsm are generally used for leaflets or flyers. A super smooth white card which will add a beautiful crisp finish to all of your paper crafting and stationery designs. Great for printing on, stamping and using with a variety of paper crafting tools and machines. This is the perfect base white card and a favourite with our customers. Grammage is more commonly referred to by its unofficial abbreviation: GSM. While grammage is technically the proper term for paper weight, most printers in English-speaking countries refer to GSM as the “weight” of a card. According to the type of brochure and the kind of binding used, you can choose from the paper grammages set out here.