Paper Recommendation For Steiner Pages

I use 67 lb acid-free cream colored cover stock, using my inkjet printer set at 'best' print quality, and fed one page at a time. I have also tried 67 lb gray colored cover stock which also gives good results. Like Hieronymus, I don't use laser printers due to the danger of toner transfer.

I'm thinking on using Steiner pages for my WW collection.

As usual in Western Europe I'll be using DIN-A4 sheets. I've choosed paper 120 g/sm, printed in just one face, with my "HP Dekjet" printer.

Should this be OK?

May I have any problems with the paper size?

Thank you in advance for the help

The 67 lb. paper translates to 147 g/m^2, a bit heavier than the 120 g/m^2 you are using. I think the Steiner pages are designed for North American 8.5 in. x 11 in. paper (216 mm x 279 mm). A4 paper is a bit longer and narrower (210 mm x 297 mm). Best is to experiment with your PDF printer settings to see what you prefer. Another point to note is that when printing PDF pages with Adobe Reader, ensure that Page Scaling is set to None so that the pages are not scaled to fit the page - scaling usually reduces the size of the stamp outlines.

What do you think about this product from staples?67lb Cardstock

i usually collect WW stamps in stock books and Plastic Zip bags. it easier for me to obtain and cheaper too.

If your zip bags are sealed you are asking for trouble. Stamps need to breathe. Airtight storage encourages growth of mold or fungus unless the stamps were absolutely dry when went into the bag.

Stamps need to breathe but the air they breathe needs to be dry. Very humid air getting to stamps will also encourage the mold/fungus. So whether one uses albums, stockbooks or any other storage means, one has to do what one can to control humidity in the room in which they are stored.

If you are in a humid climate (which makes stockbooks and albums vulnearable), it's unlikely that the air in the zip bag before you sealed it was dry air. Once you seal it, you trap them in that humid air, whereas in a stock book at least there's some circulation.

Overall, glassines are preferable to plastic zip-seal bags. One could leave the zip-lock bags unsealed but there will be far less circulation than in an album or stockbook or even plastic "Vario" pages.

That is like the one I use from Staples (in Canada) except the name is 67 lb Cover Stock.

I'm late to the party, but I will comment too



Like Jkjblue, I use this paper for my Steiner pages:

EarthChoice Colors - Opaque Text, Cream, Vellum, 8.5" x 11", 70 lb. Text - 500 sheets (Domtar, 81077)

Just about right balance between using "regular" paper (too thin) and cardstock (too thick) and has a nice (dark) cream color that is easy on the eyes.

I use an Epson inkjet printer that has two trays. I just keep a stack of this paper in the bottom (alternate) tray and have regular printer paper in the upper tray.

Like area66, I too have started putting my pages in page protectors, which seems to be more common among collectors that I had once thought. May take some getting use to the look and feel of the pages in protectors, but not much different form clear interleaves if anyone's ever used/seen those. Pages then can be put in a nice Vario binder or can be 2-hole punched and put into Scott or any 2-post album binder (the pages in protectors are almost exactly the same size as Scott International pages)

I use 24lb archival paper with cotton in it. It is stiffer than normal paper but not bulky so that I can get more pages in each album. Works very well for me.

Dianne

I use the same approach as area66, and so far it seems to be working very well. With the added protection of plastic protection and two sheets of paper it seems to be stiff enough not to curl.

As for paper I use so-called permanent paper (ISO 9706), which is acid-free, and I use hinges mostly (mounts for the better stamps). As far as I have managed to find out this kind of paper should be safe to use.

I do the same as Dianne, but I use 32 lb. cotton paper. Less bulky and acid-free/archival.

http://www.amazon.com/Southworth-Co.../B00006IE2E/

They sell it at Staples and most major office supply stores.

Andy,

I think we discussed this before, can't remember, but are you using page protectors for your pages? If so (or not), would that affect your choice in paper? For example, any benefit of using 100% cotton paper if they're in plastic page protectors and you can't feel the paper anyway?

Just curious.

Chris

I use page protectors, but I don't know if that would affect my choice of paper. I am mostly using page protectors so I can have facing pages.

Yes, I agree but, like it or not, it does make an album full of "plastic pages"

Just a side note here ......

I see different collectors talking about the paper they use .

Twice in my life time ,the paper I was happy with and made many binders with. Then the retailer or manufacture quit carrying or even making that type of paper. Then your looking around a year or two later for that same paper with no luck .

Leave a few blank pages around or as I do keep a extra ream unopen as a future supply.