Paper and Ink

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There are many paper options from budget sheets to high quality surfaces and finishes. Recycled papers are offered with various levels of recycled Post Consumer Waste (PCW). Papers that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) have a stringent chain of custody which assures you that trees were harvested in a sustainable manner.

To discuss the ink and paper for your next project, request a custom consulting session.

Standard Paper Sizes
Letterhead, envelopes, business cards, labels, presentation folders, brochures, booklets, postcards...

Paper Options
The paper you use is a critical factor in the appearance of your printed projects. For most of our products, Castle Press has suggested paper options to those most popular for the usage. There are hundreds of different paper brands, colors and weights available depending on the budget for your project...

Stock/Paper
Stocks that have the same front and back surface save money. Work-and-turn press forms require one set of plates that can be used to print both the front and back side of the press sheet. The requirement is that both sides of the press sheet have the same surface...

Paper Opacity Guide
Opacity refers to the property of paper which obstructs the passage of light and show-through of printing. This characteristic is expressed as the percentage of visible light that does not pass through a sheet of paper...

Deinking: What does it Mean to the Environment?
Recovered paper is currently one of the most important raw materials in paper and paperboard production. Paper recovery and recycling continues to grow more rapidly than even industry experts can predict...

9 Ways to Cut your Printing Costs
One or more of these production tactics can help your organization cut fat out of its printing budget — with no loss, or even gains, in advertising effectiveness...

The Myth: Harvesting Trees to Make Paper is Bad
The Fact: Sustainable forest management benefits people and the planet. While it’s true that collecting used paper and recycling it into new products is good for the environment, there’s a catch...

Print and Paper Play a Key Role in Learning and Literacy
When you think about learning, typically you envision students at their desks putting pencil to paper, or listening to a teacher in the front of the classroom. However, today there are a variety of tools that support learning and literacy...

What Causes Paper to Crack when it is Folded?
We’ve all had that beautiful project: the one with the solid ink coverage that wrapped around from the front cover to the back cover. It was truly a picture of joy and happiness - until it was folded...

FSC® Certified and Recycled Paper
The U.S. is the largest market for paper products in the world, producing 90 million tons of paper annually. In turn, the U.S. consumes about 100 million tons per year. In 2012, recycling awareness led to 65% of domestic paper being recycled...

Reducing Cost - Planning, Marketing and Design
The percentage cost for producing 10,000 copies of an 8-1/2 x 11 saddle stitched 16-page self cover booklet that prints eight pictures in four color process breaks down as follows...

Colors/Inks
Delete extra colors from your document to simplify prepress work. Going through this process will eliminate the possibility of incorrect conversion of “extra” colors to four-color process...

Communicating with Color
Color Pointers from Leatrice Eiseman's Guide to Communicating with Color: When two variations of the same color, one light and one dark, are printed next to each other, the lighter shade will seem lighter, and the darker shade will appear to be darker...

Images and Ink
Full color images viewed on a monitor are created by the colors red, green and blue, resulting in a continuous tone pixel structure...

RGB vs. CMYK
CMYK is the normal color mode for printing color. The RGB color mode is used to display color on your monitor or computer screen. Because the computer screen displays only light, the more light that is added the "whiter" your color becomes...

10 Tested Ways to Cut Your Printing Costs
Pointers on how to save printing dollars without hurting the eye-appeal and response rates of your mailing packages...

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