Bond paper is a high-quality durable
writing paper Printing and writing papers are paper grades used for newspapers, magazines, catalogs, books, notebooks, commercial printing, business forms, stationeries, copying and digital printing. About 1/3 of the total pulp and paper marked (in 2000) is prin ...
similar to
bank paper
Bank paper is a thin strong writing paper of less than 50g/m2. It is commonly used for typewriting and correspondence.
The term is also used for securities that are issued by banks, instead of governments. See also commercial paper, securities iss ...
but having a
weight
In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force acting on the object due to gravity.
Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar qua ...
greater than 50 g/m
2. The most common weights are 60 g/m
2 (16 lb), 75 g/m
2 (20 lb) and 90 g/m
2 (24 lb). The name comes from its having originally been made for documents such as
government bond
A government bond or sovereign bond is a form of bond issued by a government to support public spending. It generally includes a commitment to pay periodic interest, called coupon payments'','' and to repay the face value on the maturity dat ...
s. It is now used for
letterheads and other
stationery
Stationery refers to commercially manufactured writing materials, including cut paper, envelopes, writing implements, continuous form paper, and other office supplies. Stationery includes materials to be written on by hand (e.g., letter pape ...
and as paper for electronic
printers. Widely employed for graphic work involving pencil, pen and felt-tip marker, bond paper can sometimes contain rag fibre pulp, which produces a stronger, though rougher, sheet of paper.
See also
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Coated paper, also high-quality, but bond paper may be coated or uncoated
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Inkjet paper
Inkjet paper is a special fine paper designed for inkjet printers, typically classified by its weight, brightness and smoothness, and sometimes by its opacity.
Manufacture
Some inkjet papers are made from high quality deinked pulp or chemical ...
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Tracing paper
Tracing paper is paper made to have low opacity, allowing light to pass through. It was originally developed for architects and design engineers to create drawings that could be copied precisely using the diazo copy process; it then found ma ...
References
* ''Webster's Third New International Dictionary''
* ''Chamber's Science and Technology Dictionary''
p. 103
Printing and writing paper
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