On your website you talk about papers with kg weights and not gsm or lbs. What is the difference?

In Japan paper weights are determined by the combined weight of a 1000 press sheets in that particular paper. According to the size of the press sheet this weight will change. Luckily in Japan there are only really two widely used sheet sizes – shirokuban and kikuban. Shirokuban is the defacto size and what all the kg weights are based on at Mojoprint. If you are used to papers expressed as gsm see our guide to converting gsm paper weights to Japanese kg paper weights.

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