Paper question

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Noticed at Staples yesterday, they no longer have laser paper or ink jet
paper, it is now called printing paper "good for both laser and ink jet
printers"
That begs the obvious question: is there really a difference in this paper
and how would one tell?

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In article <87lgr09hfe8j6lahf6ntm08rsrp0argmm7@4ax.com>,
MCheu <mpcheu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Laser printers don't really need special paper at all.

Um, technically that may be true.

But from a performance and image quality standpoint, nothing could be
further from the truth.

When you're passing paper at 150 or 200 pages/minute, you need paper
that was designed for and tested for something like that.

When you're using a color laser system, the paper is an INTEGRAL
component to the entire system. If you buy a nice color laser printing
system but cheapen out on the paper, you might as well have thrown the
money away. It's like putting Mexican gas in your Porsche. You'll get
crummy results.

So technically, a laser engine (more properly a xerographic engine) can
generally pass a sheet of just about the cheapest paper you can find.
Will you be happy with that overall? Only you can answer that question.
But if you're not happy with the results from cheap paper, don't blame
the printing system. Change paper and watch what happens.

You *do* get what you pay for.