Color Copy Coated Gloss A4 Paper - 170gsm

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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. gsm is an unusual grammage for folded leaflets, but is popular for large-sized prints due to its stability. Uncoated paper provides a super smooth finish and ensures brilliant colour contrast. Watermarked Paper

The abbreviation GSM stands for Grams per Square Metre and is the measurement of paper weight used in the UK. Printed products by paper weight guide 60gsm paper Answer: No, coloured card will not flake when cut. You should get a nice, clean cut if you use a good quality pair of scissors or another cutting tool. Can coloured card be used for drawing, sketching and colouring?Printing techniques: litho printing, silk screen, letterpress, waterless litho printing, Digital printing suitability for Claro Gloss & Silk from 115 gsm upwards (Preliminary tests are recommended before printing any job). 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. Store at room temperature (17-23°C), at a relative humidity of 50%, from 24 to 48 hours before use. Also another common weight used – often the defacto standard of letterheads, compliments slips and other business stationery items. It is also used in gloss and silk forms for printed leaflets and flyers at the budget end of the scale. 120gsm paper

This guide provides the vast range of paper weights available for printing. Whilst there are some lower, higher and some in-between this guide, the majority included are the most common used for forms of printing and approximate weights. What does GSM mean? Please be aware that this information should only be used as a guide because relative gsm/mic can vary from one brand of paper to another and there can even be some minor variation in different production batches of the same type of paper). Uncoated Paper (also referred to as Bond, Offset or Laser)

When printing photos on either inkjet or laser printers, it is vital to use the correct photo paper. If you are using an inkjet printer, you should have inkjet photo paper; for a laser printer, use laser photo paper. Most manufacturers, such as HP, Epson and Canon, recommend that you use their photo paper. However, there are also very good alternatives, including 5 Star and Kodak. 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?

Certain types of paper – e.g.photo, listing, business card paper –have specialist uses which are explained in the relevant sections. But the most important differences between everyday, office types of paper are size (A4, etc), colour, weight (GSM) and printer type. Most plain paper willprobablywork in different types of printer, but this can’t be guaranteed and the quality of the print-outs will vary significantly. Economy paper is fine for printing internal communications or for the fax or photocopier. But better quality paper will produce better printing results. Size (A1, A2, A3, A4, etc)

Used commonly for carbon copy pad, NCR pads and some news print. It is one of the thinnest papers 80gsm paper