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I have use the Office Depot Professional Sugar Cane 8"x5" note pads and like them. Not smooth like Rhodia and there is some show though to the back, but does not normally bleed through or feather. They are like $7 for a package of 6 pads so I use them all the time. I have not tried the one in the link. Actually the link is not working for me...

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Wonder if they would have something similar at Office Max. Once the two brands merged, all the local Office Depot stores around here closed.... :( I liked having a variety of stores (we now just have Office Max and Staples) because I liked to comparison shop -- somethings were cheaper at one, other things at the competitor's (and for some reason Office Max -- while generally more expensive overall -- used to have the best prices on Parker Quink Permanent Blue cartridges (at least while they were still available here in the States).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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I have some Staples brand "eco-easy" bound notebooks, recycled and based on sugar cane content (80% bagasse), made in Egypt, that are absolutely awful. Absorbent and spreads/feathers with all fountain pen inks. Even rollerballs bleed/showthrough to the other side of the page.

 

I am using them for note taking, but I am using Robert Oster ink (a dry ink), a fine nib, and one side of the page only.

 

So definitely try before you buy. Not all sugarcane paper is ideal for fountain pens, and I would hate to be saddled with an entire case of the bad stuff.

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I have some Staples brand "eco-easy" bound notebooks, recycled and based on sugar cane content (80% bagasse), made in Egypt, that are absolutely awful. Absorbent and spreads/feathers with all fountain pen inks. Even rollerballs bleed/showthrough to the other side of the page.

 

I am using them for note taking, but I am using Robert Oster ink (a dry ink), a fine nib, and one side of the page only.

 

So definitely try before you buy. Not all sugarcane paper is ideal for fountain pens, and I would hate to be saddled with an entire case of the bad stuff.

 

I've had similarly not great experiences with some sugar-cane papers, even brands that others thought were great. From these experiences I concluded that cheaper papers will have a lot more batch variation than expensive brands (e.g., Rhodia). If you get lucky with a good batch you get a lot of decent paper for cheap; if not you have a lot of crummy paper to give away to non-fountain pen people.

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I have some Staples brand "eco-easy" bound notebooks, recycled and based on sugar cane content (80% bagasse), made in Egypt, that are absolutely awful. Absorbent and spreads/feathers with all fountain pen inks. Even rollerballs bleed/showthrough to the other side of the page.

 

I am using them for note taking, but I am using Robert Oster ink (a dry ink), a fine nib, and one side of the page only.

 

So definitely try before you buy. Not all sugarcane paper is ideal for fountain pens, and I would hate to be saddled with an entire case of the bad stuff.

My girlfriend took a calligraphy class at the DC Pen show and the instructor said to avoid all paper labeled "recycled" as it contains all types of junk paper from napkins to paper towels to toilet paper that are awful for ink. I am not sure if that is common knowledge here or not but I had no idea of that. I just thought it was all regular printer paper.

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