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Coloured paper and card

Coloured paper and card

Coloured paper and card
We stock a great variety of different coloured paper and card in a wide range of colours,

The paper can be used for school art projects, children’s art and craft resources as well as for presenting small mood boards and other presentations that need a more colourful background.

One of the larger brands of high quality art paper is Bright Ideas coloured paper. They have a range of paper with a rainbow effect.  Rather than choosing a paper all in the one colour you have the option of choosing an assorted pack of coloured paper giving you a variety of colours to use.

When looking to purchase any paper or card products an important consideration is the thickness of the paper that is required, for example copier or printer paper would typically be between 80gsm and 120gsm.

 The higher the paper gsm the thicker each sheet of paper will be, gsm (grams per square metre) is the unit of weight measure of paper, if your looking for regid card then you would need a gsm somewhere between 175gsm and 210gsm..

Comments customers have added

Please explain paper characteristics eg GSM and its uses 160gsm and 280gsm. eg. Card for peronnalised christams card. Thick paper won't feed my printer!!
Samuel Hill - 03 December 2009
It would save time to be able to differentiate card from paper in searches. I have ended up buying coloured paper instead of card.
Christine - 09 February 2010
Hi Christine
I have just searched 'coloured card' on our websites search bar and found the first 10 results to be coloured card followed by coloured paper as it returns the most relevant results first. You can judge which products are thicker (so classed as card) by the gsm (grammes per square metre). Anything abouve about 160gsm is pretty heavyweight so can be classed as card rather than paper. I hope that this is helpful?
Kind Regards
Joel
Euroffice - 10 February 2010
I need card for prize cards - red, blue yellow and green not a random mix of colours. Can you help?
Felicity Veazey - 04 September 2010
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