Document Wallet Pack of Fifty

manilla, 315gsm, with a gusset that takes a real document rather than six sheets

Office equipment is sold on headline numbers that almost nobody can use. A printer quoted at 40 pages a minute is quoting a single sided black page from a warm machine, and the cost that matters is pence per page over five years rather than the price on the box. Every listing here states the real running cost, the monthly duty cycle the machine is actually built for, what the consumables cost and how long they last. Where a cheaper machine would do the job we say so, because the money in this trade is in the consumables and we would rather you knew that from us than worked it out in year two.

Specification

• Use: paper filing, archiving and document handling
• Specification: the everyday specification, which covers most offices and is what we would put on a quote unless you told us otherwise
• Capacity: sheet capacity stated per item at 80gsm, which is the only comparable figure
• Consumables: labels and tabs, included where the product needs them rather than sold alongside
• Connectivity: not applicable
• Running cost: not applicable
• Sustainability: recycled board with the percentage stated, and the polypropylene pockets are recyclable. We state the actual certification rather than the word sustainable. For paper that means FSC or PEFC with the chain of custody number on the wrapper. For recycled content it means the percentage. Anything described only as eco friendly is described that way because there is nothing to certify.
• Delivery: next working day, and the archive boxes arrive flat packed
• Weight: approximately 2.40 kilograms
• Warranty: one year return to base
• Capacity: stated at 80gsm, which is the comparable figure
• Archive boxes: flat packed, which saves you the storage while they are empty
• Trade: Trade account customers get thirty day terms on approval, a published price file, next day delivery on stocked lines and a named account manager rather than a queue. Ask for it, because we do not upsell it.

What arrives

• the items as described
• labels where the product includes them
• a reorder card
• flat packed where it saves you the space

Setting it up

None, beyond assembling the archive boxes, which takes about fifteen seconds each once you have done one.

Which one to buy

On lever arch files the mechanism is the whole product. A cheap file has a thin mechanism that springs out of alignment and then will not close, and the board outlasts it by years. Buy on the mechanism and the spine width, and ignore the covering, which is the only part of a lever arch file that never fails.