Does anyone love 8.5x11" (or A4) paper as much as I do????

Trying to keep it international here.

Last night on Craigslist I found someone here in town selling nine reams of Strathmore 100% cotton 24 lb. paper for $40!!! A ream of that is normally like ~$32 --- for one of them! What am I going to do with my new 4,500 sheets of 100% cotton, watermarked paper? Fucking look at them like Scrooge McDuck does with his gold! Right???

I think 80 lb. is like the minimum weight a cardstock should be, and I love drawing w/black ink on laser printer paper, which is coated w/a very thin amount of clay (better for the toner to fuse onto) and ink just stands out on it gorgeous, not absorbing near as much.

I have at least 600 sheets of nicer, resume-quality paper already (of various colors & textures), but these nine reams...I feel like I've hit the fucking jackpot.

I used to accidentally scare the shit out of people in the office by whacking a ream of paper against the corner of a desk, breaking the wrapping, and saying, "It's okay. I used to work at Kinko's."

legal size sucks and causes a paperjam in my printer everytime. plus none of my filing cabinets can deal with it.

I love paper. The best few months of my life were working at a print shop where I got to have all the binends I could carry home. You need to come to England and have a perusal of Paperchase, which is just about paper-lover's dream.

I'm forever trying to get decent pen and ink drawing paper that is hot press (so very smooth) but the clay content, yeah, that might have something to do with it as I've always loved drawing on computer printer paper, probably for that very reason.

also one of my professors said that we can't email him our homework assignments because, due to budget cuts, each professor has been limited to 1 ream of paper per month. anything more they have to pay for. what kind of wacky clown college am i going to?

You should strew them around the room and roll about in them.

Emailing homework assignments? You guys are living in, like, Star Trek compared to when I went to school.

she's saying she can't email her homework assignments

You forget, I went to school in the stone age. We didn't have email to be forbidden from using to contact our profs.

Anyway, back to paper love. I like a nice matt finish 100 gsm.

High fives!

I don't like a 'linen' texture.

If I wanted a linen texture, I'd paint. On bloody canvas. I want my paper so smooth I can rub my cheek against it. (Not that I've ever done that. In public. Especially not in Paperchase. Ever.)

I like a nice matt finish

tmi

(sorry)

You need to come to England and have a perusal of Paperchase, which is just about paper-lover's dream.

i work for Paperchase US, masonic.

Harman Baryta Gloss FB - mmmmmmm

i appreciate nice paper, like in a notebook or a book or whatever, but after seeing how much paper is wasted on an average office day and all the stupid junk that gets printed and immediately recycled, i am mostly anti-paper. and not even only because of pulp&paper industry madness but also because i think most things aren`t worth the paper they`re printed on. i`m not even talking abt books, i`m talking about advertising and term sheets and minutes of meetings pertaining to ephemeral crap.

material culture rant truncated due to work. that will be printed. on paper. :/

At the printer I worked at from 92-94, we ran a job on permanent crack-&-peel label stock that left a 3" x 8.5" strip unused after it was cut down. I kept the trimmings instead of trashing it and I've never been without blank label stock ever since. The end.

Paperchase is in the US now?

Oh frabjous day, calloo, callay! That is great news.

Oh, I'm totally anti-paper in the office. Paper is too nice to waste on work. I don't understand people who have to print out EVERY, BLOODY. THING.

ive been sorting through my personal documents since 1994 today. I am V V V anti-paper right now

that was a well structured sentence

I enjoyed it!

My bf works in digital printing, so often comes home with samples theyve printed that day, left over posters or postcards, or a run of cd covers he's made for his band from a left over job's end of stock.

PAPER! :D

METRIC PAPER, FULES!

1:SQRT(2) NOW!

^OTM

no one has pointed out that A4 is not 8.5"x11" but 297mmx210mm

a thing of beauty:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/A_size_illustration.svg/444px-A_size_illustration.svg.png

Aaaah, that's so ... Phi. So fibonnacci! I love it!

(I do miss 8.5 x 11 paper, though - being shorter and fatter, it was somehow more aesthetically pleasing to draw on. Though you can fit more cartoon panels on an A4 sheet.)

i think most things aren`t worth the paper they`re printed on. i`m not even talking abt books, i`m talking about advertising and term sheets and minutes of meetings pertaining to ephemeral crap.

Agreed about the sheer unnecessary dullness of 99.9% of office printouts, but! rrrobyn, meet John Johnson (1882–1956), collector of "printed ephemera":

More than forty years ago I was spending my winters with large gangs of fellahin digging the rubbish–mounds of Graeco–Roman cities in Egypt for the written materials — the waste paper — of those ages... Often I used to look over those dark and crumbling sites and wonder what could be done to treat the background of our own English civilization with the same minute care with which we scholars were treating the ancient.

...I set to work, timidly at first, but soon with more confidence, on what appeared to be the miscellany of the world, to show what was really the order and development of it. Trivial things like the development of advertisements on our hoardings, the many–sided interests of postage stamps, the development of the journals, all the ephemera of our lives, were brought into the compass of illustration; and I venture to think that the more ordinary they were, the more compelling they were in their new alignment.

Man I have NO idea where to put all this paper.

A4 is the best paper for an airplane-paper thats for sure

Abbott wtf publish some books already.

I have a soft spot for good A3 paper...because you can fold it in half and doodle on four pages!

When I worked in publishing the production manager would get dummy bindings from printers. She'd give them to me whenever she was cleaning out her shelves... so I'd get a booksized notebook with kickass paper stock and a blank white cover. I had about 10 of them in all shapes and sizes...and DAMN I miss them. Best were the hardcover ones.
oooh my pretties.