ABOUT GEOGRAPHICS

A Short History:

" All you need is a little imagination. Geographics® supplies the rest. "
" Geopaper™, More Than Words Can Say…”
" Geographics®, Where Creativity Begins…

You may remember these Geographics slogans that were used along the way..…
Geographics started as the initiator and innovator of the Printable Image Paper and expanded its product line into complementary products like: Foil Stamp Imaging, still available today, Note & Reminder Pads, Designer Poster Board, Stick On Letters, Rub On Letters and Stencils, General Signs for retail stores, business and indoor and outdoor personal use, Ready Made Signs & Universal Signage Symbols.

Later on, Geographics acquired the Domtar and the Z-Graphics designer stationery lines, thus expanding and enhancing its market leadership position in the image paper business. With these acquisitions, the Certificates category became the strongest with its great designs and fine paper base, a unique category in its diversity and sophistication of designs.
Geographics was founded in Vancouver, Canada in 1974. Later on, the business moved to Blaine, Washinghton and in 2002, Geographics was acquired by Mafcote Inc, a family business with a tradition of over 100 years, the oldest manufacturer of lace paper doilies, Royal Lace®, and one of the largest paper coaters in the US. Most of the Fluorescent double sided Poster board, the 2CoolColors® Poster board, (a different color on each side) and the Grid Board, are being sold in most retail stores throught USA. Mafcote prides itself in having a few patents in the poster board area and an interesting line of inkjet photo papers.

The Geographics® Brand Image was introduced in 1992.The GeoPaper® was to be a source of high-quality desktop publishing papers. Unique designer business and social stationery printed on high quality 24lb. and 70lb. paper inundated the market through big and small retail stores, making these products widely available and desirable.
This was a new concept which was meant for the small businesses who could not afford or care to have business identity or professionally designed logos  and for schools and home users who needed a paper they could personalize and print fast, a paper that could enhance their messages.
The design paper was meant to attract attention and make a bold statement and it had the advantage that it was a “Do it Yourself” product for use with laser printers, inkjet printers, photocopiers, quick printing and handwriting.
The idea was to offer preprinted business sets or ensambles where coordinating designs in letterheads, envelopes, tri-fold brochures, business cards, tent cards, post cards, note cards and mailing labels, would satisfy every business need for paper and collateral materials.
The designer stationery for personal use had a large variety of uses from cards and invitations, menus, press releases, resumes, flyers, reports, certificates, diplomas, awards, posters, newsletters, announcements, poems, notices, programs and signs, to notes, memos, correspondence, quotations and more.
Also, Geographics offered and still offers a line of Executive Class of unprinted Premium Paper or Fine Paper  like Granite, Marble, Parchment, Speckled, Sonora  and more.  

TODAY, Geographics is a well known brand, recognized for its affordable quality home school and office paper products and its value-added designer stationery paper.
Geographics is also the only globally recognized designer stationery brand with international presence in Europe, Australia, Mexico and China.
We pride ourselves in having the best quality and the most sophisticated certificate designs in the market as well as a combination of classic but always “en vogue” designs like Clouds, Sicily, Venice, Rose, etc. and new and trendy designs that keep up with fashion and trends. The GEOPAPER™ and GEOGREEN™ sub-brands stand for quality business and social stationery in various styles  featuring fashion, theme and event oriented designs for business correspondence and events like Wedding, Baby shower, Birthday party, Christmas, Halloween, 4th of July, Valentine’s Day as well as school and educational design papers for teachers, parents and students.
The new GEOGREEN™ modern and trendy designer stationery line for business and social purposes is made of paper with a high recycled content which goes up to100 % post-consumer and non tree paper.
The GEOGREEN™ line features a successful combination of letterhead and envelopes in marble, linen textured, pearlized, handmade and translucent vellum, foil stamped letterheads and invitations and 2cool-colors note cards and envelopes.
We have always been successful in the market, despite our competition which tended to copy and imitate our products.

We have always been successful because are offering:

• Great Value Consumer oriented products for home, school and office use;
• Professional quality products that build customer confidence and loyalty;
• Value added products at reasonable prices;
• New concepts and ideas, every year.