From 200 kg

Custom Papers
From 200 kg

The Gmund Creative System

The Gmund Creative System is the largest mix-and-match system in the paper industry. It offers a selection of 50 colors in matte and metallic, 77 embossing options, and up to 9 paper weights. This allows for over 30,000 paper creations.

“The Gmund Creative System is designed for paper professionals. It is clearly organized and guides you through simple steps to create your custom paper. Order the Gmund Creative System here, which includes samples of all 50 colors and 77 embossing options, each in matte and metallic.”

Gmund Creative System

Here’s how Mix and Match works – find your custom paper.

Step 1: Choose the base paper and paper weight.
Step 2: Select the paper texture in matte or metallic gloss.

Production time: 7 – 10 business days. Minimum order quantity: 200 kg per specification.

Over 200 kg

Do you have a project requiring more than 200 kg?

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50 Colors from 200 kg – Our Base Paper Inventory

For the Gmund Creative System, we stock base papers in 50 colors and up to 9 paper weights. For each specification, we maintain inventory ranging from one to five tons. It’s certainly the most colorful and diverse paper stock in the world. For your custom paper from the Gmund Creative System, we start production with just one roll, 200 kg.

How much paper is 200 kg? Our reference values for you:

Paper Weight: 300 g/m²

Approximately 1,000 large sheets (70 x 100 cm) Approximately 9,000 A4 sheets (21 x 29.7 cm) Approximately 3,000 magazine covers (42 x 29.7 cm)

Paper Weight: 200 g/m²

Approximately 1,500 large sheets (70 x 100 cm) Approximately 13,500 A4 sheets (21 x 29.7 cm) Approximately 2,500 tote bags (32 x 10 x 22 cm)

Paper Weight: 100 g/m²

Approximately 3,000 large sheets (70 x 100 cm) Approximately 27,000 A4 sheets (21 x 29.7 cm) Approximately 18,000 magazine inner pages (42 x 29.7 cm)

Paper Format and Grain Direction: How Are They Related?

The roll width is the basis for all paper formats. Gmund typically produces rolls with a width of 70 cm, and for white papers, often also rolls with 100 cm width. Paper sheets are cut from these rolls.

From 70 cm rolls, the format 70 x 100 cm is produced in the Short Grain (SB) direction, while from 100 cm rolls, the format 100 x 70 cm is produced in the Long Grain (BB) direction.

Short Grain (SB) and Long Grain (BB) describe the grain direction of the paper. This is the direction in which the paper fibers are aligned during the manufacturing process. In the Short Grain direction, fibers are aligned with the long side of the sheet; in the Long Grain direction, they are aligned with the short side. The grain direction has significant effects on the properties and behavior of the paper. With the grain direction, the paper is softer and more flexible, making it easier to fold and process. Against the grain direction, the fibers are stiffer and more prone to breaking.

77 Paper Textures – Our Embossing Rolls Are Our Greatest Treasure

The paper rolls stored in 50 colors can be embossed with 77 different textures. Depending on the combination of color and texture, papers with various characters and effects are created. This offers an incredible range of design possibilities for your brand and paper project.

The embossing is applied to the paper through pressure and often additional hot steam. Our embossing rolls are made from solid steel; the design is engraved into a copper layer and then chrome-plated. Our rolls are solid and durable, with some being over 100 years old.

We regularly expand our range with new designs. For example, embossing roll 909, inspired by a salt lake in South America, or the Mega Linen embossing 908 – it creates a stunning texture through extreme embossing depth. Also new are our fine patterns from rolls 905, 906, and 907.

Color, Embossing, and Finally – Gloss

For each of the 50 base colors, there is a unique recipe for the metallic coating. Whether it’s a minimalistic look with few pigments (BR95), classic gold (BR12) or silver (BR72), festive red with golden glitter (BR92), spring-like shiny yellow (BR31), and more!

Here, we add shine to Gmund paper. How we do it is our secret, a technique invented by Ludwig Kohler in 1974.
Just a hint: It involves light calculation, as only Gmund enhances embossed papers with metallic pigments, allowing light to refract at many different angles. It also comes down to the sheer amount of high-quality pigments we use. And, not least, it’s our experience combined with a constant drive to improve.

And it’s all C2C Silver certified! It doesn’t get better than that!

Learn more here about our C2C® certified metallic papers and our wide range of sustainable paper collections.

Our Sustainable Papers

Need A4 samples?

With over 30,000 variations, it’s not so easy. We have a very large selection in our sample archive. If we don’t have your specific paper as a finished sample, we will send you one sheet for color and weight and another for texture.

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Gmund Collections X Gmund Creative System

Do you like leather embossing but find Gmund Heather too handbag-like? No problem, the Gmund Creative System offers many more leather embossing options.

And that’s not all: You can customize any Gmund collection to your preferences and requirements with the Gmund Creative System. Or, create an entirely new combination of color and embossing.

Explore the (nearly) endless possibilities of the Gmund Creative System!

Have questions or need assistance? Contact us!

Custom Papers From 200 kg