Updated Spring and Floral Paper Stocks Announced for 2014

Your Office Stop has updated our Spring Flowers and Floral paper stock line to new designs this year. From butterflies and gardens, to daisies and dahlias, we have beautiful floral paper stocks for your pleasure. Our paper stocks are acid and lignin free, making them great for scrapbooking, as well as for flyers, crafting projects, newsletters and more.


Our paper stocks are designed for both laser and inkjet printers and allow you to create beautiful advertising pieces, letterhead and flyers with minimal waste of your colored ink and toner cartridges, because we have preprinted the colored part for you already!

A sampling of the new items to our 2014 line of Spring Floral paper stocks can be found below. For the full product line, please visit our website and have a look around.

Daisy Plaid Spring Flowers Laser & Inkjet Printer Paper

Retro Spring Flowers Laser & Inkjet Printer Paper

Cassida Upgrades Its 5520 Professional Currency Counter to Increase Efficiency and Streamline Money Handling

Many people like the idea of a currency discriminator, also known as a discriminating money counter, but don't like the high cost that this type of cash counting machine comes with. Now Cassida Corporation, a leader in the money counting industry, just may have a solution for those people with the release of their new 5520 model featuring ValueCount™ technology.

Starting today, Cassida Corporation began shipping an upgraded version of its 5520 Professional Currency Counter that will save time and simplify operations for cash handlers and processors nationwide.

This new and upgraded model now includes ValueCount™ technology, an exclusive feature to Cassida, that lets users get a count of different denominations, while keeping track of the total value of the bills in the machine’s stacker.

According to Matt Goldfain, product marketing manager for Cassida Corporation, "ValuCount essentially allows the Cassida 5520 to be both a bill counter and have some properties of a currency discriminator, which is unique to the marketplace."

Clean Desk Person or Messy Desk Person - Which Are You?

So, as you sit in your office and look around, are you a clean desk person or a messy desk person. What does one or the other say about you?

Researchers have, in the past, studied how certain personality traits affect health choices in people. Not surprisingly, they found that people who tend to be more organized and predictable, typically eat better and live longer than people who were less orderly. They also tend to have very clean offices and desks.

However, what has been less clear is whether or not clean work environments can create good habits, even in those who aren't necessarily as organized as others around them. In a study done by Dr. Kathleen Vohs and the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, researchers decided to find this out.

Fall, Autumn & Thanksgiving Computer Printer Papers

Pumpkins, falling leaves, and beautiful Autumn patterns abound in our Thanksgiving border paper stocks that are preprinted and designed with Fall, Autumn and Thanksgiving in mind. If you are looking for Thanksgiving computer paper, look no further. Our Fall paper and Autumn paper measures 8.5" x 11" and is perfect for use in ink jet printers, laser printers and copy machines.

Our Fall, Autumn and Thanksgiving computer paper is great for use as Thanksgiving sale paper, invitations, and posters.

What Does MIL Weight Mean For Laminating Pouches?

The mil weight of a hot laminating pouch describes the thickness of the pouch, which determines how heavy, or stiff, the final laminated item will be. The higher the mil weight, the "stiffer" your final laminating project will end up being.

When an item is measured in "mils," your standard for conversion is one mil equals one thousandth of an inch. Standard mil weights purchased by most customers for their projects are the 3 mil and 5 mil weights.

When mil weight is being described for laminating film, it is important to know that most manufacturers are talking about the total mil weight of the hot laminating sheet. For instance, if a pouch is described as having a 10 mil weight, that means that each side of the pouch (flap) is 5 mils, for a total weight of 10 mils.

Keep in mind that a higher mil weight does not necessarily mean it is a "better" thermal laminating pouch for you. You need to consider the type of project you will be laminating and determine whether you need it to be of a standard thickness, or if you need a more rigid finished product.

Paper Shredder Maintenance: How To Care For Your Machine

Because paper shredders are such simple to use machine, many people tend to overlook the fact that you can prolong the life of your shredding machine with proper maintenance. So, we have put together a few tips on the proper maintenance of an easy to maintain machine.

Oil your paper shredder on a regular basis.

All paper shredders should be properly lubricated on a regular basis with shredder oil. This helps to keep the cutting heads moving and operating to their maximum efficiency. Proper oiling of your paper shredder will lengthen the life of the machine.

Over time the dust from paper builds up inside of the cutting blades of your machine. Eventually this dust can become packed together, forming a tight "brick" that can be difficult to remove and cause jams. It can dull the blades and burn out the motor.

Oiling your machine regularly softens the sediment in the blades and allows the cutting head to move more freely, pushing it our further.  We suggest oiling, at the very least, once a week, but more often is better. Extremely heavily used shredders could even be oiled once a day. Cross cut shredders tend to require more oiling than a strip cut shredder might, due to the finer particles of dust they create.

Paper shredding oil comes in a squeeze bottle and is very easy to use. Oiling your paper shredding machine is very quick and can be accomplished in a couple of ways.

The paperless oiling method involves holding the bottle of oil over the shredder paper cutting blades, from the top of the machine, squeezing the bottle as you pass it along the length of the opening. It only takes a few seconds. Make sure your machine is turned off when doing this. After the oil has been applied, turn the machine on, in the reverse function, for about 15 seconds to allow the oil to transfer to the blades uniformly. Then simply shred a few sheets of paper in the machine, which will help remove any excess oil.