Greetings - A while ago I wrote a positive review about a home brand of paper sold at Staples named Signa. My earlier review extolled the virtues of this paper for use with fountain pens etc. However over time I have discovered that the quality of this paper is not consistent and thus from batch to batch you can get some really poor quality pads which bleed and spider. As a result I am resending my earlier praise.

I've had that experience with other papers as well. Also I've had paper that has random areas on a page which take the ink differently -- like an area that resists the ink.

I had the same experience with inter page inconsistency of quality. One day I was writing on a pad of Signa with a medium tipped Cross Century FP that was a fire hose and I hit a patch that acted like a paper napkin. It almost sucked the pen dry.