I love the movie Office Space so much that I have an autographed Office Space movie poster hanging in my office. When Swingline released their collector's edition Rio red stapler in 2002 I had to have one, but they weren't very easy to find. I thought we owed it to Office Space fans to correct this situation and we set about making the red stapler easier to find on the Web. I think we succeeded as this week BuyOnlineNow passed a milestone; we shipped our 10,000th red stapler! I think Milton would be proud.

I should introduce myself; I'm Bob Herman, the President and founder of BuyOnlineNow. I'll be a regular contributor here, along with other members of our company. We think office products are pretty interesting (we're a little weird I guess) and hope you'll find something interesting, amusing or useful here.

One of the funniest, and most quotable movies in the last ten years was "Office Space." And one of my favorite parts of the movie is the whole "Milton's Red Stapler." We all remember the line "I believe that's my stapler, it was a swingline..." Ha-Ha, that was great. Well, I did some research on the history of this famous stapler. It seems that when the movie was being made, the person in charge of props wanted to give the Milton character an object that was so important to him, it would cause him to go completely insane and burn down an entire building when his boss, the notorious "Lumberg," steals it from him. Well, what better than a bright red Swingline stapler. The only problem was, Swingline didn't make any red staplers. So the designer contacted Swingline and asked if it would be ok to put their logo on a stapler that he had painted red. Swingline agreed, and the rest is history.

With so many different types, and styles of paper out there, it can be very confusing to figure out what kind to get. So today I am going to talk about some of the things to look for when choosing what type of paper to get.
First off, we need to know what type of machine we will be using the paper in. For example, an inkjet or laser printer, copy machine, photo copier, and so on. Not all types of paper will work with every machine so it is very important to know what’s compatible with the machine you will be using.