Staples often has great deals on printer and copy paper. I have never been disappointed with their multipurpose paper. I have donated several reams to my daughters teacher since the school seems to have frequent shortages of paper.
I used to get the more expensive papers to avoid jams etc. This Staples paper works well though (and I use a lot in my home business). When it goes on promotions I take it and am very rarely disappointed.
This paper is so white. I never paid attention to the brightness of paper. However once I started printing I found that there is a great difference. When the paper is Staples MultiPurose paper everthing looks so sharp and srisp. It feels like you ate using a new printer and a new supply of ink. It is smooth too. Beacuse of its smoothness I believe that it uses less ink. I have used this paper to make trifold pamphlets. I had color photos on it as welll as as a printed message. Came out fantastic!