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Does anyone know of a UK-based source for 70 gsm A4 paper? (Preferably in reams.) Back when I was first doing fanzines (which, I've just realised, is before the likes of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
johncoxon were even born), 70 gsm was the standard weight of paper. I'd already realised that the standard weight of paper these days is 80 gsm. What I *hadn't* realised, until this weekend, was that 70 gsm paper doesn't seem to be available at all any more, even as a non-standard weight. Either that, or my google-fu is slipping...
The reason I want some 70 gsm paper, incidentally, is due to the fact that I am producing a limited number of paper copies of Virtual Tucker Hotel. A typical issue size looks as if it's going to be 8 pages, or two sheets of A4 as a booklet. Two sheets of 80 gsm weighs exactly 10 grammes. By the time you add staples, address labels, sticky tape and stamps, it puts it just over 10 grammes. Which is the difference between 56p international postage and 81p international postage. The same fanzine on 70 gsm paper would come out just under 10 grammes, saving me 25p postage per copy. I'm prepared to live with a marginal increase in bleed-through for 25p a copy...
johncoxon were even born), 70 gsm was the standard weight of paper. I'd already realised that the standard weight of paper these days is 80 gsm. What I *hadn't* realised, until this weekend, was that 70 gsm paper doesn't seem to be available at all any more, even as a non-standard weight. Either that, or my google-fu is slipping...The reason I want some 70 gsm paper, incidentally, is due to the fact that I am producing a limited number of paper copies of Virtual Tucker Hotel. A typical issue size looks as if it's going to be 8 pages, or two sheets of A4 as a booklet. Two sheets of 80 gsm weighs exactly 10 grammes. By the time you add staples, address labels, sticky tape and stamps, it puts it just over 10 grammes. Which is the difference between 56p international postage and 81p international postage. The same fanzine on 70 gsm paper would come out just under 10 grammes, saving me 25p postage per copy. I'm prepared to live with a marginal increase in bleed-through for 25p a copy...
