[Tex/LaTex] How to add “DRAFT” along the left/right margin

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The draftwatermark package emblazons "DRAFT" across a page or pages. The intention appears to be to ruin a document to make it unusable.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{draftwatermark}
% \SetWatermarkLightness{0.8}
\SetWatermarkScale{4}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum{1-5}
\end{document}

draft-emblazoned

But what if the intention is just to ward against accidental use of a preliminary document by a sleep-deprived individual, without jarring so much or interferring at all with the readability of the text.

Adding "DRAFT" along the left/right margin would do the trick. Is there a package for that?

Update

The selected solution is heavy-handed, because it uses tikz, which interacts poorly with simple \begin\end{verbatim} formatting. ("Package tikz Error: Sorry, some package has redefined the meaning of…").

A lighter solution, one that 1- uses an existing lighter package, and 2- cohabits with many other packages (geometry, perhaps even memoir, …) without issues, would be nice.

Best Answer

Compile more than 3 times.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{background}
\backgroundsetup{
  position=current page.east,
  angle=-90,
  nodeanchor=east,
  vshift=-5mm,
  opacity=1,
  scale=3,
  contents=Draft
}
\begin{document}
  \lipsum
\end{document}

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