Paper Progressions

Hieronymus says the major paper trends Georgia-Pacific has seen emerging in the digital printing market over the past two years are:

• The growth of premium laser papers to support color digital output.

• The emergence of "digital laser opaques" to support high-volume digital monochrome printing of books, manuals and catalogues. Many of these documents need higher opacity paper to minimize show-through. This opaque feature allows long documents to be printed on lower basis weight papers to reduce thickness of the piece, or to lower mailing costs.