If you want individual sheets look at French Paper Company, a great producer in Milwaukee, a family-owned business. We buy a lot of stock from these very good people. And they have a variety of newsprint style paper (and butcher paper). Great quality. They sell lettersize and other sizes, in text weight and cover weight. It’s easy to order online.

You can also talk to Borden & Riley Paper Co. , Phone: 718.454.9494; www.bordenandriley.com. I once went to this production plant to buy newsprint, they were at 184-10 Jamaica Ave. Hollis, NY 11423, not far from JFK, sort-of in Queens, I guess. They make newsprint but they sell it mostly in huge rolls, or in pads. I believed we used it for Stan App’s Soft Hands — for the fly-leaf. We chopped off the part where the pages were glued to the spine, and fed it to our laserprinter, adding an image of the moon-landing.

That’s just to say, it’s hard to buy newsprint these days. However…

We’ve printed many things on newsprint, using local printers who do circulars and newspapers. Consider Linco in Long Island City (www.lincoprinting.com). They printed all of New York Nights for us. They printed a chapbook for us, Micah Ballard’s Evangeline Downs. It’s a stapled chapbook, in the style of South American poetry pamphlets. They printed full-color on a thin glossy sheet for the cover, and b&w newsprint interiors. Very old-school.

Our 2011 catalog was printed two-color on newsprint by Expedi Printing (www.expedi.com) in Williamsburg/Bushwick. Go local! If you like you can contact Corky Lee, their Sales Rep, at 718 417-0900. They do a lot of newsprint projects for local artists. 3,000 is the minimum run, 11″ x 12.5″ tabloid is the minimum size and the turnaround is 5 business days! Expedi, no kidding!