Customer Reviews

HP Multipurpose Copy/Laser/Inkjet Paper, 96 Brightness, 20 lb, Legal Size (8.5 x 14), 500 Sheets (00142-0)

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As an academic administrator, I use a lot of paper! Cartridges and paper run out all the time. Also, despite being an administrator, I still try to do some research or get involved with a variety of publication ventures. All these projects chew up lots of paper.

The HP multipurpose paper is priced reasonably and does the job. I use printers and a copier (and every so often I even use the Fax feature of my 4 in 1 machine), so I need paper that is multipurpose. This works well with both my printer and my copier. It sure meets my needs.

So, in the end, this is a good product and helps me move along from day to day in the world of academics. . . .

I formerly gave this HP Multipurpose paper a 5-star recommendation. My life is full of (self-created) clutter, requiring numerous car trips for small objects--from ballpoints to markers to Scotch tape to frozen waffles to paper--lots of it, for the bathroom, office, and music studio. I wouldn't recommend this HP paper for the first of the aforementioned applications, but it serves me well in the other two areas. As copy paper, it moves through my printer without a hitch, readily absorbing ink and producing a sharp and clear final draft. As music manuscript paper, it's got enough fiber to stand up on its own on a piano ledge or music stand (many are the times that an overly thin sheet simply wilts and folds in half with no help from me). Last, the packet is a full 500 sheets (some of the store brand "value packs" show an attractive price--until the small print reveals a total of 400 sheets).

Until a couple of days ago, ordering this essential product from Amazon was a no-brainer, making it not only convenient but more economical to have the paper delivered right to my front door. But, perhaps not surprisingly, the price has more than doubled and the good feelings accordingly down a peg. Still, given the distance of my closest supplier and my tendency to motor out for a single item at a time, ordering the paper (but far less often) at its current price isn't out of the question.

Another, at least partial, solution would be to reduce the clutter with the cooperation of manufacturers and suppliers. The makers of so many of the appliances, media devices, technological toys and gadgets (including software programs) could contribute considerably toward a more manageable environment by returning to that rapidly vanishing artifact--the printed manual, or instruction booklet. From the iPad to the Kindle (with its 200-page online manual) to every downloaded MP3 music file, the assumption is--I'm not exactly sure--perhaps that we'll save the information to our computer desktops or that we'll happily print it out or that we'll read the online instructions and remember them later or that an instruction booklet would be sufficiently intimidating to prevent us from using the device or that even the most venerable among us will somehow catch up with a younger generation that can be incredibly intuitive about many of these devices and highly impatient with (if not altogether indifferent toward) printed instructions.

I ordered this thinking it was the box of paper in the picture but its just one package of 500 sheets, order 10 if you want the box shown above. This is paper there is no such thing as bad paper so go for it this is good paper.