SPECIAL REPORT -- Web Offset - Weird Windings Of the Web

Brightness, caliper and weight aside, however, there are rolls and rolls of suspicious and downright illegal paper making the rounds to web printers who don't know, don't ask and don't care about anything other than the price.

Try $23/CWT versus $38/CWT. Same specs, different countries of origin. In Southeast Asia (which by the way exports both paper and tuna to the U.S.A.), illegal harvests and pulping of live timber under the pretext of post-Tsunami debris-removal, are attracting spot buying among less-than-scrupulous web printers. Meanwhile, suspicious harvests and conversions, as in Brazil and the Russian Federation, are providing bargains for "don't-ask, don't-tell" converters of envelopes, cut-sheets and the like.