Paper News
Oct. 2006
Designers show their colours on Accent Opaque
International Paper recently asked designers to show their flowering creativity in a design contest. The aim was to promote the benefits of the whiter and brighter Accent Opaque to the design community and show how the paper makes colours pop just like the flowers on the Show Your Colors flower cap. The paper has improved formation that ensures printability and offers the same runnability and opacity customers rely on. More winning photos can be seen online. Contact: www.IPpaper.com/showyourcolors
Digital papers swatch book from Monadnock
Monadnock has brought its line of digitally optimized printing papers together in a new swatch book, Monandock Digital Papers, a useful tool for printers and designers. Monadnock’s digital line includes Astrolite Smooth and Astolite PC 100, an FSC certified brand made with 100% post-consumer reclaimed material. These papers create coordinated collateral when married with Monadnock’s most popular lines of premium papers for offset printing. Astrolite, the company’s largest selling line of premium brilliant white paper, is elemental chlorine free, alkaline pH and bufferedContact: www.mpm.com
Stora Enso Centura premium coated achieves FSC certification
Stora Enso’s premium coated paper, Centura, is now Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. FSC certification requires that a paper product be traced all the way back to the forest through a process called chain-of-custody certification, including harvesting trees, processing, production and distribution from the mill to the printer to the end user. The Centura brand contains a minimum of 10% post-consumer recycled fibre from Stora Enso’s recycling facility. It’s available in four finishes: gloss, silk, dull and matte. Basis weights range from 70 to 105 lb. text and from 80 to 130 lb. cover.
Contact: www.storaenso.com
Contact: www.storaenso.com
Mohawk
Mohawk Fine Papers’ new website, www.mohawkpaper.com integrates all Mohawk products and features improved functionality, educational content and a programming strategy that showcases the most current content all the time. The new website better represents the company’s products after its acquisition of the fine paper business from International Paper last year. The site focuses on optimizing electronic information access while creating a state-of-the-art design interface. It also includes a discussion on sustainable manufacturing and an “Ask Mohawk” learning feature.
Contact: www.mohawkpaper.com
Contact: www.mohawkpaper.com
Gilbert showcases translucent paper with designer profiles
See Thru Me, a new promotion from Gilbert Paper, uses profiles of four designers to showcase the versatility of its translucent papers, Gilclear and Clearfold. Gilclear is a premier translucent, available in three weights and six offerings. Clearfold, available in four weights, has excellent printing and folding attributes. In the brochure, each designer answers personality profile questions and creates self-expression artwork and an overlay to their portrait: to see inside their personalities and see thru them, as you do with Gilclear and Clearfold.Contact: www.gilbertpaper.com
New Classic Crest brochure from Neenah
Neenah uses real-world samples in the latest identity promotion for its Classic Crest paper brand. The company says the number-one reason graphic designers specify a brand is because of the availability of matching envelopes and Neenah boasts the best. Identity samples such as the Buck Productions system has thick business cards, which were designed using 130 lb. double thick cover weight, super smooth, on solar white, making the graphics pop with colour. The identity system for the Chotin Asset Management Corp features letterhead, business cards, envelopes and note cards that stand out with an added touch of foil.Contact: www.neenahpaper.com
