Category Paper specifications

Distinguish grain long, grain short and feed direction when specifying paper for an office printer.

Distinguish an acid-free label from permanent and archival paper requirements using current standards.

Understand ream and carton quantities so a paper quotation can be compared by confirmed sheet count.

Assess paper surface with a printer trial and comparable roughness data instead of choosing by touch alone.

Choose fibre content with documented claims and an equipment trial, without assuming all recycled sheets behave alike.

Separate gsm from caliper and build a copy paper brief that covers the physical limits of your equipment.

Build an opacity requirement around the duplex document your readers actually use, not a gsm shortcut.

Learn why ISO brightness and CIE whiteness are different and build a comparable A4 paper specification.

Compare three common copy paper weights using device limits, duplex output and calculated sheet mass.

Confirm A4 dimensions, distinguish Letter size, and write a size specification your paper supplier can quote.