Letterhead paper for business

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As part of one of my references required by the company Im going to work for they have asked for the reference to include either a business card, letterhead or company stamp. My old employer doesnt have/cant find the business stamp so it leaves a printed document. This was a small business and didnt have any letterhead paper printed professionally they just used their own printer.

I obviously would like this to look as good as possible but would like to know what anyone thinks about just using their inkjet printer letterhead or if it would be better to get some printed along with a few business cards.

Thanks
 
I'm not sure anybody uses headed paper any more now that colour laser printers are the norm. They really shouldn't care if the 'headed paper' is just run off on an inkjet, if they think that the reference is something you made up then they will just phone whoever wrote it to check.
 
Caged said:
I'm not sure anybody uses headed paper any more now that colour laser printers are the norm. They really shouldn't care if the 'headed paper' is just run off on an inkjet, if they think that the reference is something you made up then they will just phone whoever wrote it to check.
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Theyve done the check already, old employer forgot to include anything with it so no issue there.
 
All businesses I work with seem to just use normal printed paper. If it would make you feel better you could always buy a ream of posh paper and print it out on that.
 
Bennie-Mac said:
All businesses I work with seem to just use normal printed paper. If it would make you feel better you could always buy a ream of posh paper and print it out on that.
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OK thanks, I think I might be panicking a bit as a lot rides on this job. I might get him to print some business cards as the ones he uses are a bit dated.
 
It honestly won't matter, nobody is going to not give you the job because the business card from one of your references uses Comic Sans, all they are worried about is the content of the reference and whether it's genuine.
 
Probably depends on the firm. If it's a bunch of lawyers or accountants then I would imagine a bunch of mono laser printers with a tray for un-headed paper and a tray of headed. In marketing and media there's so much stuff that gets printed in colour that it doesn't make any sense to have pre-headed paper.
 
Professional services firms tend to use specially printed letter heads and then normal recycled paper for 2nd page onwards.
 
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