4 Part Carbonless Forms

4 Part Carbonless Forms Printing

At PrintUsher we are regularly asked about NCR and carbonless forms. In this section we will try to answer them!

What is NCR Paper?

NCR - No-Carbon-Required - paper is a modern, fuss-free alternative to carbon paper and is used to make a copy of an original, handwritten document without the use of any electronics.

NCR is the trademarked name for carbonless paper and is owned by the NCR Corporation.

» What is Carbonless Copy Paper?Carbonless, or carbon-less copy paper is the generic name for NCR - no carbon required - paper. Unless the carbonless paper you are using was manufactured by the NCR Corporation, it should be referred to as carbon-less paper.

Basically NCR paper and Carbonless paper are the same thing.

How is it Carbon-less Copy Paper?

The pressure of writing on the top sheet transfers the image to the sheets below without the use of carbon paper hence the name carbon-less.

How Does Carbonless or NCR Copy Paper Work?

Imagine if you will a three part carbonless form.The top sheet is white, the middle canary and the bottom sheet pink.

The surfaces of each sheet in the carbonless form or carbonless pad are finished in a certain way:

  
• The back of the top, white, sheet is coated with micro-encapsulated dye.
  
• The front of the middle canary sheet is coated with a clay that quickly reacts with dye to form a permanent mark and the back of the canary sheet is coated with micro-encapsulated dye.
  
• And finally the front of the lowermost pink sheet is coated with the clay and no coating is applied to the back side of the sheet.

When the top sheet is written on with a pen or pencil, the pressure from the tip of the writing instrument causes the micro-capsules on the reverse of the sheet to break and spill their dye. This dye is then adsorbed by the clay coating on the sheet below and the writing is fixed onto that sheet.

What is the Maximum Number of Carbonless Sheets I can use?

It is common to manufacture carbonless and NCR multi-part forms up to 5-parts, however it is possible to make a carbonless pad up to a maximum of fifteen pages thick.

View our carbonless page or call us on: 1 (516) 405-0078 or use our new On-line quotation form.

What Carbonless Form Types Available?

We have Continuous Feed Forms any size and any part that you need.It usually used with for your invoices and fed in printer for day to day use. You can reorder these forms easily with a reorder number. With Continuous Feed Forms you do not need to feed the paper again and again in printer. You just feed it for once and it works. View our carbonless page or call us on: 1 (516) 405-0078 for more details.

Individually Glued Forms are also available and you can order these. These forms are used conveniently for taking orders or making invoices with hand written information.

Padded Format Forms are also available in quantity of 50 or 100 and any size that you might like and any choice of number of parts can be printed for these forms.

What Color Combinations are Available?

At thecitypress we can supply individual sets of NCR/Carbonless forms as 2 part, 3 part, 4 part or beyond depending upon their intended usage.

In a carbonless form set, the top sheet is typically printed onto white stock paper, with subsequent sheets of varying colors beneath.

The standardized color scheme for multi-part carbonless NCR forms is as follows:

• 2-part carbonless forms are typically printed on white/canary paper.
    
• the standard color combination for 3-part carbonless NCR forms is white/canary/pink paper.
    
• 4-part NCR form sets are usually supplied on white/canary/pink/goldenrod paper.
    

However at PrintUsher we are able to produce your Carbonless Forms and NCR Forms with any non-standard color schemes. View our carbonless page or call us on: 1 (516) 405-0078 for more details.