{"id":3167,"date":"2013-02-06T18:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:08:46","slug":"copy-paper-vs-printer-paper-whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/copy-paper-vs-printer-paper-whats-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy Paper vs. Printer Paper: what&#8217;s the difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/hp-paper-mail-in-rebate-offer-cash-back.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3169\" title=\"hp-paper-mail-in-rebate-blog-banner\" src=\"\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hp-paper-mail-in-rebate-blog-banner-600x220.jpg\" alt=\"HP Mail in Rebate: cash back with purchase\" width=\"600\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you are shopping for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/office-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">office paper<\/a>, you may have noticed that some paper is labeled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/universal-copy-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">copier paper<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/hp-papers-multipurpose20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multipurpose paper<\/a>, and some is labeled printer paper (also caller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/hammermill-premium-color-copy-print-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color copy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/hammermill-premium-laser-print-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laser paper<\/a>). Ever wondered what the difference is? I did, and did a little investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out <a href=\"https:\/\/officesupply.lifetips.com:443\/tip\/125901\/office-paper-forms-envelopes\/office-paper-forms-envelopes\/printer-paper-vs-copy-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there is a difference<\/a>. Standard <strong>copy paper is a thinner than printer paper<\/strong> &#8212; 20 lbs. a ream vs. 24+ lbs. a ream. The only time you&#8217;d notice the difference is when printing a large image. Since printing images deposits so much ink on the page, you end up with a wrinkly, blurry mess when you use thin copy paper. So, use cheaper copy paper for every day printing of text documents, and save your more expensive printer paper for graphics-heavy documents.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/officesupply.lifetips.com:443\/tip\/125901\/office-paper-forms-envelopes\/office-paper-forms-envelopes\/printer-paper-vs-copy-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LifeTips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use cheaper copy paper for every day printing of text documents, and save your more expensive printer paper for graphics-heavy documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[227,228,229,230,231],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-helpful-hints","tag-copier-paper","tag-copy-paper","tag-office-paper","tag-office-printing","tag-printer-paper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}