Thread: The Paper? Thr Printer? Does it matter?

Well guys, I'm very particular about my paper.

I use: Yellow coloured Paper (80gsm) for the ordinary Run of the mill client communication. I use 120gsm white paper, usually binded, for manuals and instruction booklets. I use pinkly shaded paper for contracts, financial documents, and other private information.

When I am doing an audit for a company, such as ecommerce sites, etc, I'll always use 140gsm paper for the main 3 or 4 copies of the publication, and then 100gsm for the rest; media, employee's, etc.

The thing I find that lets me down the most is the quality of the printer- it kinda kills the bird really, especially after spending €150 for a few packets of paper from Viking.

The question really is that, is this overkill? I find it a brilliant way of keeping communication with my clients, and because everything is colour coded, I can flick through the client's files and rip out the correct page at a glance.

Some clients(the ones who just wants a website, and they want it now) kinda gave me dirty looks, and were quite surprised that they were getting various types of paper, but for the majority, they said they were quite pleased that they found it easy to organise.

Do the webby's around here just buy a simple A4 printer, few packs of paper, or does anyone go to the extra effort, and if so, does the client ever make a comment about it?

I don't know anyone that goes through that much effort when printing documents For me, it's just medium grade paper worth about a tenner.

paper ???

Lol. Well, 100-120gsm plain paper is livable with too.

Does Forbairt have some special exception? does he print on plastic? or does he even have a printer?

Originally Posted by nevf

Does Forbairt have some special exception? does he print on plastic? or does he even have a printer?

For the most part I operate in a paper less office ..

(apart from all the papers around the place)

Invoices / proposals all tend to be PDFs ...

Did up a nice little analytics report for a customer .. PDF ... he was happy with it .. if he wants it printed he can.

In terms of getting stuff printed ... then I tend to ask the printers what they recommend.

I think I've 3 printers ... all holed up in galway unfortunately ... I do miss my laser printer (B&W) damn handy for manuals and what not.

I think it could be nice to do up printed reports for customers but I guess it'd depend ... for an "offline" type person it'd be great so they could sit down and read it.

(I do however have that one client I really have to send in printed invoices to though thats down to their in / out box system of doing things ... if its not in there its forgotten)