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- From: oleary@staff.tc.umn.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Effects of Poor Paper Quality
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- Keywords: paper, quality, stock
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- References: <1993Jan12.211705.4427@unislc.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:05:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.211705.4427@unislc.uucp> zz@unislc.uucp (Garry Blake)
- writes:
-
- >To save money, our corporate printing operation has specified
- >the use of very low-quality paper stock in our technical manuals.
- >The paper is very thin, and not at all opaque. Print from the
- >back side of each page is clearly visible on the front side.
- >Our cover stock is also flimsy, and we practically need a special
- >dispensation to print in color - but that's another matter.
- >
- >I'm leading a local quality-improvement team, and we'd like to
- >change to a better paper. We're convinced it would improve our
- >products' image. It's hard to have confidence in a product when
- >the manual looks like crap, right?
- >
- >Well, the corporate folks won't budge. They say we need hard data
- >to prove that paper makes a difference. So, I appeal to the net;
- >do you folks know of any study that correlates user satisfaction
- >or product confidence with paper quality? Failing that, does anyone
- >have a pithy quotation from some kind of expert that we could use
- >as ammunition?
-
- What kind of paper do the corporate folks use? I'm guessing they use more
- expensive paper for writing memos and messages than you use for printing
- manuals. If paper doesn't make a difference, shouldn't the entire company
- be using the same stock? You could even argue that the customer should
- be getting better paper than that used by the company.
-
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