ClickPaper, which will go live on 1 August, has been created for end users, and provides details of paper brands, weight, colour, stock size, printing processes and applications.

The paper supply toolkit website will contain over 900 brands and 40,000 individual papers.

Contact details of the producer, merchant or agent will be provided, and printers will also be able to sell or buy redundant stock -  with sellers details advertised securely, until a bid has been accepted.

The website, in development for the past two years, is the brainchild of Publishing Paper Solutions founder and owner Paul Venediger.

He said the aim for the site was to be a resource centre that would provide an informed point of reference.

"It's aimed at all personnel across the industry that have the requirement to source paper," he said.

A search engine facility will enable the browser to scan for products by weight, size, finish, environmental accreditation and printing processes. Paper calculation tools will work out the volumes buyers' require.

Story by Andy Scott