Beyond Pulp

"You have to watch your inks, your solutions, and have to try to use as little water as possible with the plates," Cafiero explains. "Besides that it is run pretty much the same as [pulp-based] paper."

One downfall of synthetic grades is that many cannot be used in the office environment (i.e. with ink-jet printers, laser printers or copiers) due to a low melting temperature.