Stock list 2026, first edition

# Paper by the sheet, the ream and the reel, sold from a floor in Winterthur.

We hold eleven shades in five weights and nothing else. The range is small because we would rather know a paper than list it. Everything on this page is in the building today, cut to 700 x 1000 and stacked by weight.

Trading since
  1954
Held in stock
  11 shades, 5 weights
Cutting days
  Wednesday, from 07:00
Zurich delivery
  Next working day

01

The merchant

## A merchant should be able to say why a paper is on the shelf.

Bogen Papier was started in 1954 by Anton Brander, who sold offcuts from a handcart outside the Ottenbach mill gate. The business has moved four times and grown slowly. It has never carried more than a dozen shades.

A large catalogue is a way of avoiding a decision. Our range is edited once a year, in January. A shade stays if printers keep asking for it and the mill can still make it to the same shade. Two papers were dropped in 2025, one for fading in window displays and one because the mill changed its sizing.

1. i Every shade is dyed through, so a cut edge matches the face. We do not stock surface-coloured board.
2. ii Prices are per 100 sheets and printed here. There is no trade tier and no annual rebate to negotiate.
3. iii If a paper is wrong for the job we will say so before we cut it, which is the only moment it helps.

02

The range

## Eleven shades, five weights, one sheet size.

Everything is held at 700 x 1000 mm and cut down on request. Weights run from 90 to 350 gsm; not every shade is made in every weight, and the weights that exist are listed under each swatch. Colours below are printed representations. Order the sample box before you commit a run.

1. 90gsm

   0.11 mm

   Letterheads, inners, throw-outs

2. 120gsm

   0.15 mm

   Text pages, folded leaflets

3. 170gsm

   0.21 mm

   Covers, posters, wrappers

4. 250gsm

   0.31 mm

   Cards, tags, menu boards

5. 350gsm

   0.44 mm

   Boxes, invitations, plates

Stock list

Each entry gives the reference, the shade name, the surface, the weights we hold in gsm, and the price in Swiss francs per 100 sheets at 700 x 1000 mm.

- B.01

  ### Natur

  Unbleached, no optical brighteners

  Surface Matt Weights 90 · 120 · 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 74.00
- B.02

  ### Kreide

  A cold white that holds fine rules

  Surface Smooth Weights 90 · 120 · 170 · 250 Per 100 78.00
- B.03

  ### Hafer

  Oat, faint fleck, our steadiest seller

  Surface Vellum Weights 120 · 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 82.00
- B.04

  ### Leinen

  Laid lines at 24 mm, visible against the light

  Surface Laid Weights 120 · 170 · 250 Per 100 96.00
- B.05

  ### Lehm

  Clay, warm under tungsten

  Surface Vellum Weights 120 · 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 88.00
- B.06

  ### Umbra

  Dyed through, edges match the face

  Surface Matt Weights 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 104.00

- Weight scale

  Ninety through three fifty, drawn to size

  Surface Not stocked Weights 90 · 120 · 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 Reference
- B.07

  ### Basalt

  Neutral dark, takes white foil cleanly

  Surface Matt Weights 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 108.00
- B.08

  ### Kohle

  The darkest we hold, dyed through

  Surface Smooth Weights 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 112.00
- B.09

  ### Nebel

  Cool grey, sized for offset

  Surface Smooth Weights 90 · 120 · 170 · 250 Per 100 80.00
- B.10

  ### Farn

  The one colour in the range

  Surface Matt Weights 170 · 250 Per 100 118.00
- B.11

  ### Torf

  Peat, ordered mostly for boxes

  Surface Laid Weights 170 · 250 · 350 Per 100 116.00

All prices are per 100 sheets at 700 x 1000 mm, excluding VAT, collected from Lagerstrasse. Cutting to a smaller format is CHF 12 per 100 sheets per cut. Reels are quoted separately by the tonne. Prices hold to 31 December 2026 unless the mill repasses a make.

03

The mill

## Everything we sell is made 38 kilometres away.

The Ottenbach mill has run on the Reuss since 1878 and has made our range since 1961. Two cylinder mould machines, one for the light weights and one for board. We visit on the first Tuesday of the month and watch the make.

Mill
  Papierfabrik Ottenbach, Reuss valley
Making paper since
  1878
Machines
  Two, both cylinder mould
Water
  Drawn from the Reuss, returned within 1.4 °C
Fibre
  68% recycled, 32% certified virgin
Shortest run
  2 tonnes, roughly 34 000 sheets

Papierfabrik Ottenbach, Reuss valley. The lower building holds the board machine.

Reel, 1 400 mm face. Reels are quoted by the tonne and delivered from the mill direct.

04

Specimens

## Printed work, with the stock named.

Three recent jobs, kept in the sample cabinet at the counter. Ask for any of them and we will pull the sheet so you can see the shade under the light you are printing for.

1. 01

   ### Kunsthalle Winterthur, winter programme

   B.03 Hafer, 250 gsm

   Two colours, letterpress, 3 000 copies

   2025

2. 02

   ### Ottenbach mill, centenary account

   B.01 Natur, 120 gsm and B.06 Umbra, 350 gsm

   Sewn section, uncoated cover, 800 copies

   2024

3. 03

   ### Zentralbibliothek, reading room signage

   B.08 Kohle, 350 gsm

   White foil, guillotined square, 46 panels

   2026

05

Figures

## Four numbers we are prepared to publish.

Taken from the 2025 delivery ledger and the mill’s own monthly returns. They are audited by nobody. They are here because a merchant who will not print a number is asking you to take the rest on trust.

- 68%

  Recycled fibre across the range

  Weighted by tonnage delivered in 2025.

- 1.4°C

  Ceiling on returned water temperature

  Measured at the mill outfall, hourly.

- 0g

  Optical brighteners in the Natur line

  Verified by the mill on every make.

- 92%

  Deliveries by rail or electric van

  Remainder is diesel, mostly Zone 5.

06

Ordering

## The sample box first, the order second.

Nobody should buy 8 000 sheets from a screen. The box holds every shade in every weight we stock, cut to A6 and bound at the corner, and it is the fastest way to settle an argument about warmth.

Order the sample box, CHF 24 Or call 052 214 07 90

1. 01

   ### Ask for the sample box

   Eleven shades, five weights, cut to A6 and bound with a screw post. CHF 24, credited against a first order over CHF 300.

2. 02

   ### Send a quantity, not a guess

   Give us the finished size and the run length. We will work out the sheet plan and tell you what the offcut costs.

3. 03

   ### We cut on Wednesday

   Cutting is a single pass, once a week. Orders confirmed by 16:00 on Tuesday go on that pass. Everything else waits seven days.

4. 04

   ### Collect or have it driven

   The trade counter is open Saturday mornings. Otherwise the van runs Thursday and Friday across Zones 1 to 3.

07

The counter

## Four people, one telephone line.

> I have sold the same eleven papers for twenty-eight years. What changes is the work people bring to them, and that is the interesting part.

Urs Brander
  Merchant, since 1998
Marek Novotny
  Cutting floor and reels
Sara Achermann
  Orders and sample service
Tobias Frei
  Delivery, Zones 1 to 3

08

Delivery

## Five zones, one van, no surprises on the invoice.

Cut-off is the time an order must be confirmed on the day it is to be loaded. Anything over 300 kg goes by pallet carrier and is quoted before it leaves.

Zone

Area covered

Cut-off

Arrival

Charge

Z1

Winterthur, Töss, Wülflingen, Seen

15:00

Same day, by 18:00

Free over CHF 150

Z2

Zurich, Uster, Bülach, Baden

14:00

Next working day

CHF 18

Z3

St. Gallen, Aarau, Zug, Lucerne

12:00

Next working day

CHF 28

Z4

Rest of Switzerland

12:00

Two working days

CHF 34

Z5

Vorarlberg, Baden-Württemberg

11:00

Three working days

From CHF 62

Monday to Thursday
  07:00 – 17:30
Friday
  07:00 – 16:00
Saturday
  Trade counter, 08:00 – 12:00
Sunday and holidays
  Closed

### Finding the warehouse

Lagerstrasse 41 sits behind the goods yard. From Winterthur station take bus 3 to Zelgli, four stops, then walk 200 m north. Loading bay two is signed for collection. There is no customer parking on the ramp.