60gsm 70gsm Black Image NCR Paper Mixed Colours CB CFB CB for Offset Printing

NCR Paper Introduction

What is NCR Paper or Carbonless Paper?

"What is carbonless paper?" (carbon less paper) and "What is NCR paper?" are two of the most

common questions we get daily. It's very simple. They are the same thing. NCR is a printing industry

acronym which stands for "No Carbon Required" and NCR paper is a type of carbonless paper, or

carbon less paper, designed to transfer writing from the top to the sheet or sheets below it. It is the

modern version of the outdated and often messy carbon paper options that used to be the standard

for making duplicates. The way that carbonless paper works is through a dual process. The front

sides of the sheets are coated with an invisible clay designed to react with a specific dye to form

a permanent mark. The back sides of the sheets are coated with the micro-encapsulated dye

necessary to make the carbonless paper and carbonless form system work, and when the top

copy is written or printed on (with special dot-matrix printers), the pressure enables the coating

on the back of the sheet to react with the coating on the front of the subsequent sheet. The micro

capsules break and spill their tiny allotments of dye onto the clay. And because the capsules are

tiny, the print is very accurate and transferable down 2, 3, 4, or even 5 sheets, enabling multi layer

forms. So when people ask what is an NCR form? The answer is multiple sheets of carbonless

paper stacked together to press the writing downwards and make an ncr copy (physical duplicates

or triplicates etc).

NCR Paper Information