With such a wide variety of specialty paper to choose from including card stocks, text weight sheets, metallic papers, translucent vellum, and imported papers from Japan and Germany, just the first glance at our huge selection might seem overwhelming.
Luckily, there are a number of avenues on our site for easy navigation. Start with our latest tool for narrowing your search, Tip Paper. Just answer a few questions about your project and within seconds the available papers will be narrowed down to just those suitable for your needs. For example, if you want to use your inkjet printer to print resumes at home, you would choose "Desktop inkjet," "Letter and A4," "Light" and "Medium" paper weights, and "Neutral" colors.
You are presented with a number of choices, all suitable for printing at home on your inkjet printer.
Another reliable way to navigate is to click on our Specialty Paper page. Everything is arranged by categories. Heavier papers will be in the "Cardstock" category while text weight or writing sheets will be under "Fine Papers." There are a number of other interesting categories with specialty paper ideas that you might not have considered for your project.
LCI Paper carries a wide selection of domestic and imported papers. We always encourage you to order a sample to get a touch and feel for the paper and to print a test in your printer. Not only can you order a single sample for most of the items we carry, you can order a variety of sample books that represent some of the most popular and trendiest lines of specialty paper.
Different paper brands and product lines have different characteristics. Not every paper is suitable for every printer. For example, metallic papers like Stardream have a slick, non-porous surface that does not work well with inkjet printers due to the wet ink not being able to adhere to to the sheet. Those papers work best with toner from a laser printer as opposed to the wet ink of an inkjet. We test all of our papers with different inkjet and laser printers and make appropriate recommendations, but again, ordering a sample and running a test on your specific printer is our best recommendation.
