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Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (President: Takahiko Miyoshi), Japan's leading paper and pulp manufacturing company and the core member of the Nippon Paper Group, has started sales of a new product, called NPi Form IJ. The new product boasts two new features that respond to high market demand, added to the NPi Form business form paper.*1 Specifically, the features are compatibility with ink-jet printing and suitability to folding confidential postcards.
This new product is also compatible with offset printing and has the NIP compatibility*2 offered by the existing NPi Form.
[ Features of the New Product ]
| | (1)Compatible with ink-jet printing |
| | | Excels in printing quality, waterproof effect and quick drying performance |
| | (2)Perfect for folding confidential postcards |
| | | Models of 116.5 g/m2 and more in basis weight per square meter, or 100 kg and more per Japanese-style ream of 1,000 sheets, have the extra features explained below, in consideration of their application to confidential postcards and direct mail postcards.
| | i. | The quality of printing results before gluing is not damaged by the gluing process. |
| | ii. | No printing ink gets on to the gluing surface when the postcard is opened. |
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< NPi Form IJ product line-up >
| Basis
weight (g / m2) | 64.0 | 81.4 | 104.7 | 116.5 | 127.9 | 157 |
The new product is being manufactured at Asahikawa Mill (Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido), with a sales target of 200 ton/month.
| *1 Business
form papers: continuous business forms |
*2 NIP compatibility: the following features are required for business form papers used with
Non-Impact-Printers: |
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Easy folding that prevents slanting when forms pile up |
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Compatibility with character printing and excellent toner fixing |
| | (3)
Avoidance of problems such as curling |
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