FP-friendly music staff paper?

[Thomas Ang]

 

Now that people don't really compose with ink any more, publishers aren't terribly interested in making good staff paper. I've tried the notebooks by Peters Edition and by Faber Music (among others) and while the latter is probably the best so far, it still feathers and has some ghosting (no bleedthrough, though, which is way better than the Peters one). It's minor, but still annoying sometimes, and the paper definitely gets slightly soggy if you colour in your noteheads too much. you can see what I mean - the surface is pretty textured, and ink goes quite far along the paper fibres.

 

 

I'm aware of some premium manuscript paper products (like from The Stamford Notebook Co) but I really want a source for FP-friendly A4 manuscript paper that is "cheap" enough that I can buy, say, 500 sheets at a go for maybe £30. I'm not sure home printing on good paper is the solution either, since I've heard that Tomoe River doesn't take printing well and honestly now that I don't have a printer in the home any more I can't experiment with other kinds properly. Any advice? 

[Penguincollector]

    Peter Pauper Press makes 120gsm staff paper notebooks in wide and regular. I don’t know how economical it is, but it is available.  Leuchterm also has some in A4+. I think you could buy reams of Clairefontaine and Kokuyo- come to think of it, I bought my ream of Clairefontaine SmartPrint from the UK.