On the eve of “mixed paper” rollout, paper quality starts to wobble
A city’s sorting-rule change and a copier-paper price reset landed in the same week. For printers, the first hit may not be price—but shifts in feedstock quality and data-driven operations.
This isn’t a story about “not enough paper.” In the same week, the timing of paper pricing and the way recovered paper gets collected both moved. For printing companies, the impact tends to show up before any price list does—as variance in quality and disruption in the workflow.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
Sagamihara City’s web page had its “last updated” date moved to September 25 ahead of the October 1 sorting change.
At the core of the change is bundling paper packaging and magazines/miscellaneous paper into a single collection category called “mixed paper.”
That same week, Askul—a B2B e-commerce supplier—announced a copier paper price revision, specifying not only the date but the exact time: “orders placed on or after 18:00 on September 30.”…
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