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

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This trend holds true across printed flyers, posters, leaflets, booklets, magazines, business cards, invitations, stickers, menus and pretty much any printed product you can think of. GSM remains for ‘Grams every Square Meter’, It’s an estimation of paper quality which takes into account printers to be much more exact than they could be with wooly terms like ‘thick’, “thin” and ‘kinda in the center’. It can be composed or printed on without restraint in light of the fact that no water-based covering is connected.

This can be confusing as different sheets may weigh the same in GSM but have different thicknesses in microns. In this calculator, you will learn about the measure of weight per unit area that is used to determine the weight of paper, as well as what the basis weight of paper is. ColorLok® Technology is a true innovation which helps improve print results when using modern printing equipment. We also use a similar procedure in determining the weight of similarly-shaped objects like metal sheets and plates.Meanwhile, stationery such as letterheads and compliment slips usually come in 100gsm to 120gsm, signifying their importance. 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. If you are setting a fold in colour, we recommend creasing from a grammage of 250gsm onwards so that the colour does not split at the fold. Not only does grammage define the weight of a sheet of paper, but it also tells us something about the stiffness of a paper sheet. In parts of the world that use the metric system, the mass per unit area of any paper product is expressed in grams per square meter (g/m2), or the weight of one sheet of 1-metre x 1-metre card.

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). As a unit of measure, GSM connects the wood pulp producers (who sell by weight) with the paper mills (who work on area). Notepads are printed on one side with a grey cardboard back and available optionally with 2 punches or 4. In the paper and pulp industry, card weight isn’t measured by thickness but by grammage — the area density of a paper product or its mass per unit of area.On the other hand, flyers promoting a sale or event are usually disposable, hence why they’re made from the lightest, flimsiest low-GSM paper. We have been in the printing industry for over 40 years printing anything from catalogues, magazines and brochures to business cards and calendars. Due to its consistency, poster paper is well suited to outdoor use; its blue background stops coloured backgrounds from showing through. However, when compared to our A4 white matte 300gsm card, the latter is lighter but thicker due to it being more fibrous and less compressed. The paper weight conversion table below shows their estimated common basis weights in pounds and equivalent weights in grammage.