Neenah Paper/Packaging

Nenaah = water
in menominee

"Enhancing the image & performance of everything you touch".


MILL VS

• (Neenah Paper)
• Manufactures the product

VS


MERCHANT
(Kelly Paper, Spices Paper/Veritiv)

• Sells the product
• Stocks in their own inventory the product of many mills
• Extends credit

Revs→ Designer → Client (old days)

Paper Propieties
Basis Weight lbs. ream (500 sheets)
Bond/Writting 17 x 22
Uncoated Book/Text/Offset

70# Book stock (500 shts) 25 x 30 (basic size) weights 70 lbs
28# writting (500 shts) 17 x 22 (basic size) 28 lbs
57# Index stock (500 shts) 25 1/2 x 30 1/2 (basic size) 57b lbs

• Point = thickness of individual sheet. Packaging world measurements. grams per square meter
• Grain direction = in which most of the fibers lay in a sheet of paper
• Formation = evenly dispersed fibers & will be smoother & more uniform than a paper with uneven formation
• Opacity = property  of paper which prevents print on one side from showing on the other 
• Increasing base weight
• Brightness/whiteness = measure of a sheets ability to reflect light
• Only criteria used for ranking of coated papers
• Bleach & flourecent

Uncoated

• Premium
• Opaque
• Offset
• Newsprint

Coated

• Decorative
• Gloss/Cast coated
• Silk/dull
• Matte