The paper saved me a lot of work. I printed more than 1000 pages of material for a small seminar I ran this weekend. If I had had to punch all those pages it would have been much more effort. A note to Staples copy machine software experts: Please take a look at the alignment of the paper when it is printed - most noticeable when the holes are already punched of course. When you print on just one side the paper comes out printed with a given orientation (not talking portrait and landscape here but which side the holes are on). When you print a two-sided sheet the paper has to be turned 180 degrees in the paper feed tray for the holes to be on the correct side. This is simply a software programming issue which could be corrected so that no matter one-sided or two- the holes would be on the correct side for the print. If you have say a three-paged document - when the first two sides (front/back) have the hole on the correct side the third page is printed wrong.
I had never bought paper that was drilled for three hole binders before; but I print stuff out to put in binders. Finally broke down and bought it with three holes. I love it don't use my punch anymore don't have to try and find it cause someone took it and did not replace it.