Hammermill Copy Plus 20 Lbs Letter size - bad

July 18, 2021

I won't use "toothy" because I've no idea what that actually means - the next time I'm at a pen show I will ask someone to let me try a pen that's considered toothy, so I know, so I'll just say that it's scratchy, it feathered with three of the five pens I tried, and bleeds through a bit.

Alex

March 13, 2022

Well, I bought exactly the same paper from Office Depot on one of the staff's recommendation. She said that I could use it with fountain pens. I was a bit sceptical, but bought it anyways. Back home, I tried it and was very satisfied. Used2 very wet Pelikan M-1000 pens, a couple of somewhat wet MB 149 pens, and ended up using a Pilot Vanishing Poing with a medium nib and a Lamy Al-Star with a 1.1mm stub nib. The paper worked fine!!! No feathering or no bleedthrough happened. It tool a few seconds more for the ink to dry on the paper. In fact, I could use both sides of the paper.

I am so satisfied that tomorrow, I am going back to the same Office Depot store and buying a case of 8 reams of the same paper!!!!

March 14, 2022

I can't believe it's been over a year since I tested a bunch of papers and I still have some that other people here sent me and haven't gotten around to it.

Considering the inconsistency between your results and mine, if I were you I'd open all 8 packages very carefully and test one sheet from each, lest you end up with reams of unusable paper years from now.

I'm glad it worked for you.

Alex

March 14, 2022

Thanks for your reply, Alex.

One thing about the Hammermill 20 LB paper is that I noticed that I saw was a sentence printed at the bottom telling us to try printing on a particular side of the paper. I have realised that writing with a fp on the designated surface of the paper leads to a smoother writing experience, writing on the other side leads to the toothy kind of experience that you wrote about in your original post.

As you advise, I will take two pages from the order of paper when it arrives, and try writing with my pens, and report on my experience on this thread.

Thanks.