Coated vs. Uncoated Paper

"A lot of the coated stock is made for folio size—sizes larger than 11x17˝, 19x25˝, 20x26˝, 35x40˝ and such," he says. "Uncoated stock has far more sizes, colors and textures, so that's a real key there."

Lynda Ramsey, director of printing papers at Weyerhaeuser, says increasingly more printers and paper specifiers are choosing uncoated sheets, and manufacturers are responding with uncoated paper that's competitively priced with coated free sheet papers.