You can probably pay much more for same type of paper same weight & same brightness. With the name brand "Staples" you know they are going to back up their name behind their product. In my 20 years of printing and copying documents I have used almost every other brand out there. At the end of the day what matters is are they inkjet printer friendly are they laserjet printer friendly. Well this is one paper for all the printers out there. I even printed a photo on this using my inkjet printer and it does not bleed at all.
I'll tell you.... IT IS THE BEST PAPER EVER!!!!! We go through a lot of paper on our copier machine so just the fact that I can buy this in bulk and not worry about it for a while is great. Plus it seems that there is always a sale on this paper. Good product lasts a long time for us.