Bond paper is a strong, high quality, durable paper consisting of up to 100 percent rag pulp. Probably best known for its important role in offices as the paper of choice for letterhead, envelopes, and other papers for official business, it is also used for memos, announcements, manuals, flyers, newsletters, reports, personalized stationery, brochures, and postings. ATM, cash register and Point of Sale Terminals — credit card swiping machines, called POS in the industry., and engineering and architectural drawings also use bond paper. Acid free bond paper is used in preservation, for example, interleaving archival material, You can also obtain bond paper with preprinted designs or border.

Arts and Crafts Use of Bond Paper
Bond paper got its name from its use in printing bonds and legal documents, but now it is used in a wide variety of arts and crafts. Did you know that some of the best model airplanes are built using bond paper? Bond paper is also used to make drawing pads and easel paper for use with a variety of media including crayons, pencils, colored markers, and paint. Bond paper is available in white, as well as pastel and bright colors such as blue, buff, canary, cherry, goldenrod, gray, green, hot pink, ivory, lemon yellow, lilac, orchid, pink, pumpkin, red, salmon, sea blue, tan, ultra lime, watermelon, giving it added versatility for cutting and pasting projects, such as Christmas ornaments and cut-out snowflake decorations.

Bond Goes Green
Office bond is available in 500-sheet reams in letter or legal size and in a variety of weights and brightnesses. Bond is now available in environmentally friendly versions, including partially recycled or 100 percent recycled. Components of 100 percent recycled bond may be, for example, 25 percent cotton, 30 percent post-consumer waste, and 45 percent pre-consumer waste. Partially recycled bond paper may contain, for example, 50 percent virgin fiber and 50 percent recycled material in the form of 25 percent cotton, 15 percent post-consumer waste, and 10 percent recovered waste fibers.

Bond Paper—Where Does It Fit in With Other Papers?
Paper weight is described in various ways. One system uses point sizes that measure the thickness of a single sheet in thousandths of an inch. Basis weight takes a measurement in pounds of the weight of 500 sheets of the standard size of the paper, but because the size of different types of paper is not consistent, comparing basis weights is complicated. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) paper industry standard, which measures weight in grams per square meter (gsm), is deemed the most consistent paper weight system for comparisons between paper types. Bond paper is in the medium textweight range.

10–35 gsm       tissue paper
35–70 gsm       lighter textweight
70–100 gsm     medium textweight, including bond
100–120 gsm    heavy textweight/light cardstock
120-150 gsm     regular cardstock
150-200 gsm     heavy cardstock
>200 gsm         super heavy cardstock

Bond Paper Sizes
Bond is sold in both reams and rolls:

• 20-lb check plot bond paper for monochrome inkjet printing comes in rolls that are 24 to 42 inches wide (61 to 107 cm) and 150 to 500 feet long (46 to 152 m).

• 21-lb universal bond paper for line drawings in black and color comes in 17-, 24-, 36-, 42-, and 60-inch wide rolls (43-, 61-, 91-, 107-, and 152-cm) that are 150 feet long (46 m).

• 24-lb bond paper for monochrome and CAD inkjet printers, for line drawings and imposition proofing comes in 24-, 36-, and 42-inch roll widths (61, 91, and 107 cm) and 150 and 300-foot lengths (46 and 92 m).

• 20-lb, 22-lb, 24-lb 500-sheet reams of bond paper for copiers and laser printers, Sheets of bond come in letter and legal size as well as

• 11 x 17 inches (28 x 43 cm)
• 17 x 22 inches (43 x 56 cm)
• 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm)
• 22 x 34 inches (56 x 86 cm)
• 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91 cm)
• 34 x 44 inches (86 x 112 cm)

Bond drawing pads are available in the following sizes:

• 9 x 12 inches (23 × 30.5 cm)
• 11 x 14 inches (28 × 37 cm)
• 14 x 17 inches (37 × 43 cm)
• 17 x 20 inches (43 x 51 cm)
• 19 x 24 inches (48 × 61 cm)