Bond paper which is also refered to uncooated woodfree papers is one of the
frequentiy used paper in the
printing industry and
more so kenya and farica in general. The qualiy of bond papers is determined
by stiffness,texture, grammage, and
indeed the brightness of the paper. The bond paper is often avaiable in various
sizes which include:
·
A1 Size – 61
x 86 cm
·
A2 size - 43
x 61 cm
·
A3 size –
29.7 x 43 cm
·
A4 size – 21
x 29.7cm
The bond paper
is usualy in the grammages of 50 – 120 gsm,however, it should be noted that bond
paper which have lower grammages ,expeciaaly 50 gsm are commoly refered to as
bank paper and on other hand, bond paper with gsm like bond 90 – 120 are
commonly refered to as cartilage paper. Bond paper are imported into kenya
market from egypt, china,portug,sweden,south Africa,India among other
countries.
The quality of
the bond paper imported in to kenya market various depending on the milers and
indded the source. It has been observed that,
printing industry in kenya consumes more of bond 80 gsm in
A1 size and A4 than any other type of bond paper. Afew printing company i kenya
have offset machines that take roll papers and thus they consume bond paper in
form of reels.
Uses of bond
paper
Bond paper in kenya is mostily used by offset printers companies,in
the daily office paper work and indeed on the photocopy machines i.e in A4
size. Just to mention a few, bond paper can be used to:
High quality
Print books
a)
Educational
material
b)
To produce
copies e.g using deplicating/coying machine.
c)
Letter heads
d)
Business
forms
e)
Print
calenders
f)
Used in
making diaries
g)
Campaigh
mateias
h)
Publishing
purposes
i)
Office
stationeries
j)
Packaging e.g
making white sacks,expecialy for packing food.
k)
Make
envelopes
l)
Promotiona
material e.g poster
m)
Bronchures among others offset
printing items
Bond paper is
stocked by leading paper supplier and delaers in kenya and can be easily
ontined from them. Those buying in large scale my get at afordable rate biiled
in kilos while small consumer can buy in term of
reams. Unlike other products and imports into kenya market, bond prices and
paper prices in kenya market is not constant and keeps on changing depending on
the demand,avalibality, quality and indeed dolar exchange rate.
To purchase the
bond paper in reels or sheeeted, you can visit the links.
iii) Asl paper
iii) uneeco papers
