Opal Australian Paper's Maryvale mill, in Victoria, has halted white paper production indefinitely, as the office supplies industry predicts paper prices will soar across the country.

Obviously there is some cost involved here: your own consumables (paper and ink/toner). If you need a ream's worth of specialty sheets, you're obviously better off buying them.

Simon McCoy has blessed us all on this here day, by finally explaining what he was doing with that ream of paper on BBC News. For the lucky folk who haven’t been plagued by this question for ...