The Right Paper For The Right Job

Compare a piece of regular copy paper with a piece of paper designed for color copiers, and you'll see a big difference in brightness. The high brightness of color copy paper makes for sharp images and good contrast.

Mills can make paper brighter by adding fillers, dyes and optical brighteners that work on the same principle as brightening laundry detergents. These optical brighteners are fluorescent dyes that are excited by artificial or natural light—so the paper looks even more brilliant when light hits it.