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Jen
I asked that kind of question at an office supply store once, and the guy said that printers are usually made to take paper up to the thickness of 110# cardstock. I've even tried bristol board that was twice that thickness once, and it printed halfway through before getting stuck. Printers do not tend to shred paper that is that thick, so it's not difficult to clean up a paper jam if you do have one.
If you do not want to risk using 110# cardstock, then you can use 65-67# cardstock. I'm pretty sure that stuff will go through any printer that uses single sheets for printing. Then, once you're confident enough about using cardstock in your printer, you can make the jump to 110#.
The cardstock at Hobby Lobby and Michael's is usually either 60# or 90# weight. Even when a package of paper at those stores comes with a label that says the weight of the paper, it's hit or miss on whether it will be visible when you buy it. It's usually on a tiny slip of paper giving the specifications that isn't glued to anything, so it can slip easily between the papers in the package. They also tend to have a high incidence of missing from a package altogether. I was looking at some cardstock at one of those stores once, and out of 3 packages, only one had the label where it could be read. It said in really tiny print that it was 90 lb. cardstock.
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