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PS - Tips on Choosing the Best Paper for your Prints

Date Published: 09th March 2006
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Selecting the right paper for a printing job can surely be an intimidating task. It does not actually have to be a though and daunting task. When you are choosing the best paper for a printing job, you are often bombarded with a lot options, which will be very hard to decide on. If you are going to ask, your printer needs a lot of specifications so that you will get the right answers that you need. You need to be very specific with that.

If you have been used to making such decisions in the past because you have been involved with a lot of printing jobs already, the choices do not look intimidating at all. But before you make your orders, you need to know the numerous choices just to make sure.

Paper especially and specifically, has a lot of choices and options. It has around more than ten different characteristics that can affect the quality and the cost of prints and also the appropriateness for a certain printing job.


When talking about the surface of the paper, it mainly talks about the printability, the look and the feel. When a certain type of paper is being pressed at a mill, it will pass through series of rollers, which is in the process called calendaring.

The calendaring process can affect the paper in several ways. As the amount of this process continuously increase, the paper is made glossier, softer and more capable of retaining ink. This makes the paper thinner, less bright and opaque.

Now you may ask why people judge a book by its cover. This is because the cover is what your eyes first set on. If the quality is not that impressive, readers will not be interested to take a short look on your book.

This is the reason why every page of your prints must have that quality most thirsty-eyed readers are looking for.


This can be achieved be deciding on the right type of paper and surface you should print on. It takes time to think so that all your efforts and money will take effect in return.

Quality paper when added with great color is the best kind of printing application.


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