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>>157147 for small projects use any cardstock that works for you. for medium projects use any cardstock that works for you. and for large any cardstock that works for you. It's just personal preference, if you find 160 gsm works for you, keep using it. Why switch just because somebody says use 120 gsm or 200 gsm? When we say you should use 200 gsm, and you go to a store and it doesn't have it, don't bother travelling all over to find 200 gsm paper. Try something that they do have, and see I fit works for you, it's not worth it to spend a lot of time hunting down the exact cardstock someone tells you when you 're probably completely happy with something readily available to you. ;)
Some printers can't handle cardstock: at my school, I tried to feed cardstock to the printer at my school that's also a copier (you know, big freezer size things and it wouldn't take it. Most home printers can handle it though, and even it doesn't, all what will happen is either a) nothing or b) it gets jammed and you'll have to remove it. Your printer won't magically blow up, just try it, it'll probably have no problems. up till now ive just been using 90gsm paper. That's your average printer paper that you normally use. Of course it can be used, but it buckles easily even when you press it just a little, even on small papercrafts, that's why most people use thicker paper. 160-200 gsm is what most people use, and most people just use one thickness regardless if it's small or big. thanks for the help
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