Has Anyone Seen Album Page Paper Stock Like This?

If so, I'd love to get some.

I just received an Indonesia collection that appears to be on Steiner page layouts. I believe them to be self-created rather than commercially bought, as there are custom pages for the covers, which wouldn't be in the standard layouts.

What's interesting to me is the paper stock, which is not only a nice card stock, but additionally have nice rounded corners on all 4 corners. The size of the pages is U.S. letter (8.5x11 inches).

You can see images below. Sorry, I don't have access to my scanner at the moment to provide better images of the pages. (Yes, I realize that the covers shown are philatelic contrivances.)

There's any number of possibilities:

1. It's paper stock sold this way with rounded corners and 3-hole drilled. My Google searches don't come up with anything though.

2. The stock is sold with rounded corners and was 3-hole drilled by the buyer.

3. The stock is sold without rounded corners and the buyer used a corner punch to create the rounded corners. I'm thinking against this, though, as the corners are too uniform with no "goofs" (most corner punch reviews I see online are fairly craptacular).

So has anyone seen paper stock like this before?

Your scans do not show an entire page. I'd be interested to see a pic of an empty page including the rounded corners. It is difficult to transmit a picture that conveys an exact shade or color. Are these pages bright white?

I use Imperial 3 ring blank pages for some of my collections, I order them with rounded corners. They are bright in shade.

The corners appear to be irregularly round. If so, then they were probably manually cut using a "corner rounder" tool. They are available in handheld and tabletop models. Tedious work, but some people prefer it. The owner also could have had a print house run a ream through a die cutter as a custom project.

Akiles Diamond-1 Corner Rounding Equipment, around $100
Desktop, handles up to about 1/2 inch of paper at a time.
https://www.amazon.com/Akiles-Diamo...ding+Machine

Don

Looking closer now that I can get hands-on again, my original assessment as to the consistency of the rounded corners was inaccurate. There is more irregularity than I thought, which lends credence to the corner punch.

Still, I like the end result. I may have to get one.

You can get various cutter blades for this unit. I was considering one, my local machine shop quoted me $50 to make a couple of custom cutter blades with the Scott square hole dimensions. Have not moved forward b/c I am not sure that this unit can be configured to punch holes. (I think it can but would have to remove the corner holders.)
Don

I found 8-1/2 x 11 cardstock with rounded corners on Amazon. Here is a representative link:

https://www.amazon.com/Heavyweight-...p/B079452VCH

Be cautious; good archival paper is costly (especially when you get into the thicker weights). I have had difficultly finding paper that meets my specs, I currently have 4 reams sitting here that I decided against after having them in hand. (If I had to do it over again I would have just worked with my local printing company and gotten them to sample me paper.)


My machine shop also quoted me a custom paper cutting desktop machine but I was looking at $500. So now I am looking at device like above which might be used for 'double duty' (both corner and hole punching).
Don

I've got this one on the way:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...e=UTF8&psc=1

While it can only do 1-2 sheets at a time, its reviews are far and away the highest of any corner punch on Amazon.

For less than $10, if it performs as reviewed, I can be patient rather than spending $100++ on an industrial unit.

Unlike the others, it has 3 different corner radius sizes.

I bought a hand held Fiskars corner punch,and a simple paper trimmer that I made a jig for.I trimmed 1/8" from the outer edge of the pages and rounded the outside corners of the pages of my Germany album, clean and straight edge and rounded corners. Total time involved was two sessions of three beers to complete.

I'm a papercrafter and always round the corners of pages I work on (scrapbooks, albums, etc.). This gives the best results and is quite strong. It can do a number of sheets at once as well as round corners on heavier paper.



https://www.amazon.com/We-Memory-Ke...+rounder

Small hand-held corner rounders are easily available for a few dollars. They cut clear round corners very reliably, not at all "irergularly round" as suggested by some. Unless you're just really bad at pushing down on the button, of course!

What these pages appear to be is nothing special -- heavy stock punched for three holes which is extremely easy to do with a standard three-hole punch, and then corner rounded. It's easy and not that time consuming. This has been done for years.

I just received the unit I linked above, shipped from Japan.

It's larger in hand than I was expecting, and wow is it easy to use and produces consistent results. Unlike ones that are like hand-held pliers or crimpers, the fact that the sheet corner slides into a large notch means that you get a consistent corner every time.

I love that the sealed bottom keeps the tiny paper pieces from flying all over the place, nor do you have to work over a waste basket.

Some images from the Amazon listing below and then a scan of a page I did.

For under $9 shipped, it's a great value.

Any time you want /need specialty paper why not simply visit a local printing house? They will probably be very happy to order whatever paper you want, apply round corners, punch holes, etc. The price for this service will usually be modest.

GJP

The only "printing houses" around here are Kinko's or counters in Office Depot, etc. Even if they could accommodate it certainly wouldn't be cheap. For specialty/niche stuff like this, I would think that the nominal expense of buying the punch would be far less expensive in the long run.

Minkus made some country pages in 8 1/2 x 11 with the outside corners rounded. Also on heavier paper and 3 hole punched.

Scan attached of first page.

I wish I could get more.