What Is Your Favorite Office Supply Store Paper?

[Witsius]

I'm sure we all love our Rhoda and Clairefontaine pads, but let's face it; they are expensive. If I'm just jotting notes that I know I'm going to pitch after I'm done with them, I don't like using my "good" paper. It seems like kind of a waste. So that leaves using paper from the office supply store. So,for office supply paper, steno pads, legal pads, what ever, what's your preferred paper?

[FOUR X FOUR]

Black & Red

[KLscribbler]

Environotes Sugarcane Paper notepads. Surprisingly very FP-friendly considering the paper material and price. I could not get it to bleed or feather even with wet broad nibs. Certainly one of my favorite cheap papers.

[carlos.q]

Black & Red

[Runnin_Ute]

For cheap, cheap: Made in BRAZIL composition books and others

 

For a little more but quite a bit better: HP LaserJet 24 lb - by the ream.

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Out of curiosity, any recommendations for good, cheap, graph ruled notebooks?

Edited September 24, 2016 by Dragonmaster Lou

[spotted and speckled]

Hammermill 24lb laser paper, a ream of it is usually under $10. It has a teal wrapper with a butterfly on the front.

[ac12]

For notebooks; Staples, single subject, wire bound, made in BRAZIL. This is not as good as any of the other listed papers, but at 17 CENTS each, during back to school sale, who cares.

 

For notepads; Office Depot, sugar cane

 

For blank paper (by the ream):

- HP 32# Premium

- Hammermill, 28# Color Copy Digital

- Staples, 20#, Sustainable Earth, sugar cane paper. Not as smooth as the HP 32# paper, but stands up to anything that I've used on it. And it is good for pointed nib dip pen as well.

[Mulrich]

I use staples signa legal pads. Generally pretty good but don't expect magic sheeting or the crispest lines.

[jcastro1975]

HP 32lb cutter and punched in my Levenger notebooks

[zuerincolour]

Might not be useful to you but here in NZ I use Warwick 14B8 A4 or 14B5 A5 refill pads.

 

 

 

Out of curiosity, any recommendations for good, cheap, graph ruled notebooks?

Fabriano Ecoqua is always my go-to

[Octo]

Many papers made in Brazil are very good, even the inexpensive composition notebooks.

 

Most notebook filler paper is sealed in plastic, but you can get an idea about feathering, etc., by looking at whether the lines have spread.

 

I once bought a 10-ream case of printer paper that was very FP friendly and also acid free from a chain office supply store. It was on sale for $24. Those stores outsource their lines of papers from low bidders, so repetition is very unreliable.

[Studio97]

staples ARC notebooks and Black n Red. Staples often has clearance sales which I go overboard with but two colors were discontinued of the leather covered ARC notebooks at about $17.00 each regular. I bought 11 of them at $5.00 each with the ARC pads in them. So I have a stock of them. I use them as personal journals.

[Studio97]

I guess I'm bad. I found six more of the ARC leather notebooks with paper for $2.00 each. The paper is very good. It's great to find a good notebook so inexpensive.

[MTHALL720]

HP Laser Jet bright white 24 lb ream paper.

[888007888]

Heading to Staples to look for Arc sales today. Hope to find some good deals

[torstar]

24lb lined notebook paper, usually with the "fancy paper", infinitely better than the 20lb stuff.

[Studio97]

Heading to Staples to look for Arc sales today. Hope to find some good deals

I always check clearance .The tag on the shelf said $9.00 on those ARC leather notebooks. Regular price on their other shelves was $16.99. I did a price check on the color leather on clearance and they came up at $2.00 each. A few months ago I bought 11 lime green leather ARC at $5 each. So now I have 17 of them. I'm a confessed notebook hoarder and I use them virtually everyday.

Of all brands and sizes of notebooks I have, I may go through 2000 pages this year.

Staples sales will hit certain colors of leather which I suppose are discontinued and it works for me. If this paper was mediochre the price would still be a good deal, but it feels heavy, smooth and has taken everything I've thrown at it. I'm not sure if it's acid free but it appears to be very durable.

Edited January 16, 2017 by Studio97

[JakobS]

My favorite is Roaring Springs Environotes filler paper. It's more expensive than many filler papers, but still about four cents per page. I can't think of an ink that hasn't behaved well on it, and can handle very fine to very broad nibs with a variety of wetness. Perhaps, very wet nibs on the verge of being more paint brush than fountain pen would bleed through, but I don't find those too practical to keep around! I am not sure if many office supply stores have this paper, but many college bookstores do.

Edited January 16, 2017 by JakobS

[carlos.q]

Recently I've been using this one:

 

 

Office Depot Professional sugar cane. Make sure it's the sugar cane version: the other one is awful for FPs!