How To Identify Paper

[SkylarKnight]

Hello everyone

 

I was messing with some inks tonight and found a particular ink behaves differently on paper from one note pad I have, but doesn't show the same results on any other type of paper. I looked on the cover, but it said nothing about the type of paper. I also noticed the paper feathers less than my cheap printer paper.

 

My question to you is how do I identify the paper? Is there any way to at least get clues on what kind of pape was used for the booklet?

 

Here's a picture on the behaviour of the ink on this paper:

 

http://i.imgur.com/xYKI7cS.png

It sheens with a lovely paper, whether when swabbing the ink from the top of a nib or writing, however, this doesn't appear to happen with the other papers I tried (I tried a couple papers I received from Amberlea, as well, while looking for the sheen).

 

 

Any help will be appreciated!

Edited September 1, 2014 by SkylarKnight

[Ink Blotto]

Unless it is watermarked I'm not sure how you could identify it other than branding on the cover. Do you remember where you got the pad?

[Lou Erickson]

That's a really hard one. Even papers of the same weight can have different characteristics, depending on their finish and composition.

[SkylarKnight]

Unless it is watermarked I'm not sure how you could identify it other than branding on the cover. Do you remember where you got the pad?

My mother got it from work, but I doubt they'll know

[SteveE]

For me, sometimes it is just the "feel" of the writing surface of the paper. I can (I think) gently rub my fingers over the face of the page and know if the paper is FP friendly or not. Not scientific at all, but for me, it usually works. People do give me funny looks when I am seen caressing pads of writing paper, though. . .

[Lou Erickson]

For me, sometimes it is just the "feel" of the writing surface of the paper. I can (I think) gently rub my fingers over the face of the page and know if the paper is FP friendly or not. Not scientific at all, but for me, it usually works. People do give me funny looks when I am seen caressing pads of writing paper, though. . .

It's one thing to stand and feel up a pad to see if you think it'll work - I have a feel for that, too - but another to have one and say, "What is this so I can find more of it?" It's that latter I don't know how to advise on.

 

If the goal is just to help SkylarKnight get some paper that her ink sheen will show on, and which won't feather, the usual suspects are always reliable - 24lb or 32lb laser printer paper. I prefer "Hammermill Laser Print" over the "HP Premium Laser Paper" but the HP Premium is easier to find. Or a Rhodia or Clairfontaine notebook. Or some Tomoe River.

 

But that doesn't help her know what she's already got.