Issue No. 42• Dispatches from the underground• Est. 1974• Static RSS ready
Folio: Print archive ed. Raw • Unfiltered
Note // #306Print Radicals
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On 70gsm

Why the pamphlets are printed on the paper nobody wants.

Seventy grams per square metre is the weight of a free newspaper. It creases if you look at it, yellows in a year, and shows the ink from the other side. It is also cheap enough that we can print three hundred copies of a pamphlet and post them for less than a single glossy run would cost.

The paper is the argument. A pamphlet that costs nothing to make can say anything. Pamphlet 09 sold out in eleven days and we are not reprinting it, because reprinting is what glossy does.