Printing your own pages.

[Admin Bear]

i am sure that i will neglect a few links here so if i do please post them in your reply

many of our members have seen this thread stampbears.net/thread/36/on-line-album-pages

and many more have used (are using) stamp albums dot com pages (myself included)..

but one topic that keeps popping up in other threads is the issue of paper..

of course we all agree on Acid free paper - but what color? i have seen yellow, blue and white.. i think this is a personal preference

while i like to look at other people's albums and enjoy the color i am of the opinion that White does the trick quite nicely for my albums and i dont think i can bring myself to any other color.

What about weight of the paper.. here should be a lively debate..

i attempted 110# card stock - TOOO thick and when running off a whole country (i.e. Canada) not a good idea for the pocket either. (i learned the hard way)

i find that 22# is a bit weak for my tastes but i do like a 28 - 32 # paper quite nicely and the cost is about the same at 22# in my area.

what do you use?

[rbridge28570]

They just had a local sale at my Staples and I got 32# White Acid Free!!! 500 sheets for $10.00 plus tax normally About $15.00

[Admin Bear]

great deal!!

[Phil]

I actually picked some Hammermill 32-lb white paper on Amazon.
Right Here.
500 pages for for under $14 and free shipping with Prime. (the last order I made was actually $12).
Really liked it.

[MikeC99]

I like Domtar 32 lb. paper that is acid free. I think I bought it at Staples.
Mike

[crazyquilter]

I print out the pages I need and use the blank pages from the Minkus album. Or I use the extra album pages that are messed out from someone taking off the stamp grades.

[philatelius]

I use acid-free 20-pound printer paper for my U.S. album pages.

It's not quite so sturdy as heavier weights, but it has a couple of advantages. First, it's relatively inexpensive. Second, because it's thinner, each binder holds more sheets, which means I need less shelf space, and so on and so forth.

For my half-sheet landscape pages, I use 110-pound cardstock. It's probably thicker than what I really need for those, but because I print backgrounds on those pages, I like the paper's opaqueness; it doesn't let stamps on the next page show through.