Paper

Mohawk Introduces ‘A Maker’s Field Guide to Envelopes’
August 15, 2017 at 6:27 pm

Mohawk, Cohoes, N.Y., announced the release of "A Maker’s Field Guide to Envelopes," the latest in a series of comprehensive, printed guides designed to inspire and educate designers, their clients and printers on...

AF&PA Report: Printing-Writing Paper Shipments Decreased 5 Percent in June
July 25, 2017 at 6:01 pm

The American Forest & Paper Association has released its June 2017 Printing-Writing Paper Report. According to the report, total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 5 percent in June compared to June 2016. All four printing-writing grades posted year-over-year shipment...

Appvion Inc. CFO Tom Ferree to Retire, Luke Kelly Named to Succeed Him
June 13, 2017 at 7:11 pm

Appvion Inc., Appleton, Wis., announced that Tom Ferree, the company’s chief financial officer for the past 10 years, will retire from Appvion on June 30. As part of the planned transition, Luke Kelly will succeed Ferree and serve as vice president of finance and chief financial officer. Kelly, who is currently Appvion’s...

The Latest Paper Trend: Re-Printable Paper?
April 11, 2017 at 7:50 pm

Concerned about all of that paper we’re writing and printing on, the Yadong Yin research group at University California Riverside decided to come up with a substrate that could be “written" on, and subsequently erased, through a variety of methods. The writing step is achieved using UV light...

How the Invention of Paper Changed the World
March 14, 2017 at 7:41 pm

Johannes Gutenberg figured out how to make large quantities of durable metal type and how to fix that type firmly enough to print hundreds of copies of a page, yet flexibly enough that the type could be reused to print an entirely different page...