I have used three Norcom notebooks, each has had consistently good performance with noodler's polar black ink. They also make index cards which work so well with the ink I can write finer print on them than on regular sheet paper. I would hate to sound like a tool or anything but I just wanted to spread the word about them. They don't sell anything directly through their website unfortunately, but their products can be found at office max, wal-mart and eckerds.

Yup, I posted similar opinions back in February:

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...6&hl=norcom

However I discovered that it can vary from batch to batch. So the only way to be safe is to bring a pen with you with your most ill behaved ink and test it right there in the store and buy several from that same batch. But if you find a good batch, the stuff is great. I use it every day.

Well I guess to further describe what I think about the products I have used. I have had better luck with the 80 sheet perforated notebook item number 76086 and the 180 sheet version. The ink just sticks to the paper really quickly, polar black however still behaves like it does on any thin paper, so it isn't possible to do double sided writing.

The index cards item #69100 can be written on two sides without bleed through and the fineness of the lines is dramatic when comparing it to notebook paper with the same pen as a comparison, but there is a drawback involving the ink smearing a little even if it was given a minute to dry.

I've never tried the index cards. But I'm pleased to see that someone else independently discovered "my little secret" for good writing paper. Just watch those batches. Not all are good. (it depends on how much sizing they used on the paper)

Oh, and your original message is not "trolling". (You wrote "tool" but I assume you meant "troll") A troll is a person who posts a message for an ulterior motive. If you were the owner of Norcom and posted the message purely to drum up business would be trolling. Another use of "troll" is someone who posts a controversial statement purely to stir up trouble. Another is spam disguised to look like a sincere post. Such posts are disingenuous--posted for a ulterior motive = trolling.

I had posted over a year ago about the Norcom 9.75 X 7.5 composition books. Target sells them for 50 cents during their back to school sales. Walmart also had them this past year. For their back to school sales Target usually has the wirebound Norcom composition notebooks in packs of 10 for $1.00. I stock up for the year when they have their sale.

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I think I used the wrong word for it. A troll is someone that posts inflammatory posts to get some kind of response out of people. A tool is a naive person that does things for someone else's gain even if it runs contrary to the "tool"'s well being. I don't know the word for someone who just gives out free publicity to a company's products, so I probably just used a poor word to describe it.

So far I think the best way to determine the paper quality without writing on it is to look at the ruled lines. Both the vertical and horizontal lines, the quality of the lines seems to be a fairly good indicator of how good it is with ink.

Oh well I'm one of these awful people that flips to the back page and draws an innocuous half-inch line at the top of the page plus a couple of dots. That's all I need to see if the paper is behaving.