Beyond Pulp

The same thing goes for high-opacity grades of paper.

"Printers should expect to pay a little bit more for opaque papers due to the high cost of the opacifying fillers, which is usually titanium dioxide," says G-P's Hieronymus.

But he adds that the lower basis weights will result in lower postage costs. One G-P customer, he reports, found a postage savings of $2,000 per ton of opaque paper purchased.