Green Office just got easier

We just it made it that much easier to green up your office and make your perforated paper projects go smoother and faster. You're going to enjoy our newest collection of Free Project Templates for perforated paper projects.

All of our perforated papers offer some type of Green Office eco-advantage. Our perforated papers offer recycled content, Forest Stewardship Council certified paper, wind power paper and carbon neutral papers, As well all of our perforated papers are perforated using 100% wind power and we offset 100% of the carbon produced when shipping from our Neenah Wisconsin warehouse to your door.

New Pantone Store

We're very happy to welcome our newest supplier Pantone to The Paper Mill Store. Pantone as you may know is the leader in color control and color communication. Given our volume and position in the market we're able to offer Pantone tools at very good prices and combine these prices with the top quality customer service our customers have come to expect from us.

Last day of HOW 2008

The final tally of designers attending the HOW Show 2008 was somewhere shy of 4,000. I think I spoke to half of you at our booth, The Paper Mill Store. What a blast we had!

I've been telling folks that HOW is my favorite trade show, period. The group of folks who attend are always interesting to talk with and for the most part in a great mood. The theme we heard again this year was ECO-Design and its growing importance with clients and of course with the design community.

I met up with my good friend Sabine Lenz during the final moments of the show. Sabine always has good insights into design and the design community. You should visit her site, PaperSpecs, where you can get great information on paper and design topics.

I had some great conversations on the topics surrounding paper and the environment. Its clear that most everyone is clamoring for accurate information on the subject. We gave out diskettes packed with good eco logo usage information.

HOW Show Monday 2008

One more day at the races. We had a great day meeting a lot of designers and others in the graphics professions. HOW is really doing a great job in providing meaningful seminars and brings designers from around the country and around the globe to the conference.

We just met a couple from Bozeman, MT working for Mercury Design. This is a great opportunity to speak with folks from all around and to get hear what people are finding important. Again this year more than last year ECO issues are the hot button. It seems as though everyone is getting it these days. Not only the need to examine your own eco-practice but also on how to make the case in general for sustainable design and sustainable business practices.
The doors were closed to the exhibit hall just before 8:00 am this morning and the crowd swelled to many hundreds of folks eager to get inside and see what the various vendors had to offer.

HOW Show 2008

We're here in Boston for the HOW Show 2008. A reported 3,600 attendees had pre-registered making this the best attended HOW show to date.

We arrived into Boston on Friday night to take advantage of the town for a few days prior to the show. We stayed in Cambridge and enjoyed the great restaurants and museums of Harvard Square and Kendall Square areas.

The Sunday arrived and we set up our trade show booth to prepare for the onslaught of graphic designers and others in related graphics fields. Lot's of great companies are here and lot's of free stuff for attendees. To kick off our new Pantone products we are giving away a free ColorMunki tool. ColorMunki is Pantone's newest device. This thing is really cool. You can capture color from any surface and bring this color into your graphics program. As an example you can capture the color of an insects abdomen and the color of a piece of fruit and bring this into your MAC files. These devices retails for $499, we're giving one away free. Stop by and get a chance to win a ColorMunki.

The First and Only FSC certified Self-adhesive labels

We have just added the newest innovation from a smart and progressive self-adhesive company, Pinnacle Label. Pinnacle label has created the first and only FSC certified self-adhesive labels. As well the labels are 100% recycled and fully recyclable. This is important in the world of labels because often the types of adhesives, glues, used to make the labels sticky are not recyclable. When the adhesives are not recyclable this can render any project using a non recyclable label to be non recyclable itself and have to added to a landfill after its life cycle is complete. You'll also be please to know the labels have acid free and certified Chlorine Free Process face stocks.

These labels are appropriately named RECYCLABLES. Recyclables are available in a bright white sheet in eight different address, shipping and mailing label formats. We really like these labels and we think you will too. They run in all desktop printers and are suitable for a variety of digital press engines as well. The president of the company, Ches Cochran, will provide a personally signed letter guaranteeing this. You can ask our customer service for a letter of you have any doubts. These labels are a great way to green up your office and your label projects. Please give these labels a try I know you'll like the way the perform in your printer.

Warehouse Sale in Neenah Wisconsin

We're having our second annual warehouse sale at our Neenah Wisconsin warehouse. The sale is on May 16 and May 17 at 2323 Venture Court in Neenah, WI 54956. We selling a huge variety of paper and envelopes suitable for printing jobs, marketing projects, paper crafting and scrapbooking. If you love paper and if you love great deals this is the once a year sale you should visit.

May 16th 8 AM to 8 PM
May 17th 8 AM to 4 PM

Here's a Google Map of directions showing the location of our warehouse.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Sustainable Perforated Paper

I'm really happy to announce that we are now offering a collection of sustainable perforated papers. What's really exciting about this is that you can now use these forms to help move your office or business towards Green Office practices by using paper made using various environmentally sensitive manufacturing practices.
We not only offer recycled paper, FSC papers, Carbon Neutral Paper and paper made with Wind Power, but all the perforating we do is powered using 100% wind power.

We have 45 different perforated paper formats and a collection of 33 different specialty papers. Some of the papers are really cool for perforating like our Fluorescents Paper as an example. A lot of folks are using perforated paper to create their own raffle tickets, return receipt forms, church donation forms. Today with desk top printing so easy you can make your forms without too much hassle.

I like to hear form you if you have any ideas for uses for perforated paper or would just like to comment.

National Envelope to provide SFI Boxes

National Envelope takes another step forward in their efforts to use sustainable materials and to lessen their impact on the environment. As the largest privately owned envelope manufacturer National Envelope has repeatedly taken a leadership position on environmental matters.
Using their flagship proprietary envelope brand Williamhouse and its famous envelope box, National is now supplying Williamhouse envelopes in a Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) envelope box. As a proud distributor of Williamhouse envelopes The Paper Mill Store will begin shipping our envelopes within these new boxes in the coming weeks rotating our inventory on a rolling basis which means our faster moving items will be the first to utilize this newly designed envelopes box. While the design elements remain larger unchanged the Gold Tones of the box lid and the Williamhouse Envelopes logo use a gold toned color to distinguish the SFI box.

The Score...on Folding a Scored Paper

In earlier articles in our newsletters, Grain direction...the long and short of it , Scoring 101 we covered important topics related to folding paper but frankly we never got down to the brass tacks of the acutual folding action and how to do it.


The above image shows how you always fold away from the score channel. The score hinge created during the act of scoring works in the opposite direction that most folks intuitively think of when looking at a flat scored paper.

Early on in my paper career during a call to a Midwest printer I learned this important lesson from an old curmudgeon of a printer who enjoyed seeing me fold the paper in the incorrect direction. A little embarrassing but a good lesson about folding scored paper. This is nothing earth shaking but proper folding direction is extremely important.