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As printing technology has changed, paper has had to keep pace. We've traced its path through the years.

In many ways the history of offset printing is the history of a mad scramble by papermakers to keep up with the developments of the lithographic industry.

Between 1900 and 1949, offset lithography was the red-headed stepchild of the printing industry, which left it without many choices of suitable paper. By the early 1930s, the pressure upon the paper manufacturer to produce coated papers for offset printing had reached the explosion point. Even though there had been some use of coated one-side paper in stone lithography, it was only now, with the introduction of coated two-side paper, that the offset printer found himself really able to compete with the letterpress printer.