Customer Reviews for Staples - Pastel 30% Recycled Color Copy Paper, 20 lbs., 8.5" x 11", 500/Ream (14786) - Blue
Customer Rating
5
Pastel Colored Paper Purchase
on November 19, 2014
Posted by: Paula K.
Staples.com is always easy to use in a last minute crunch! I jumped in the company vehicle and drove to a local office supply store to find paper to use for a nice note from our company to the employees and the only paper they had available for what I needed was about $30 more than I wanted to spend. Once I returned to the office I decided to look on Staples.com to see what they had to offer. They had numerous colors and weights available so I chose one that I thought would look good with the back ground I had chosen. It was perfect! As I said the price was about $30 less than what I would have spent at the office supply store which didn't include my travel time gas etc. and it arrived the next day which just helped to move things along nicely. Next time I'm going to just look online at Staples.com first.
Being a small business in a small town being able to order my supplies on line and have them delivered directly to my office (usually at no shipping cost) has made keeping my office stocked very easy. The product always arrives on time and saves me the time of running 25 miles to the nearest store.
We use this paper in our shop to differentiate sales by the month so we need to have at least 12 different colors each year so that they do not get confused. We find that with the pastels and the brights that staples has to offer we can accomplish what we need to do. This allows our customers to distinguish by the paper color what is on sale. The paper is also thick enough to withstand the moving around the shop that the items get and we can also pin into the paper without a problem or tape it on and it stays.
This is a good color that is not too dark which allows for easy reading for any text printed on the paper. When used in our office copy machine the fact that it is a lighter weight paper did cause the copy machine to send through double sheets a few times when printing several back to back copies but that is what normally happens with such paper and was easily caught as I was watching the copies as they came out for folding purposes. If that is a problem for you get the 24 lb. product instead of the 20 lb.