As a fountain pen user, I'm always on the lookout for good quality paper. Most of today's mass-market paper is made for laser printers or ballpoint pens, the needs of the fountain pen user having been long forgotten. As a result, many notebooks, pads, and loose leaf papers are horrible for writing on with a fountain pen. These papers often have a rough texture, and produce excessive feathering, echo (show-through), and bleed-through
Fortunately, good paper is available, and it isn't always expensive (nor is expensive paper always good). In this article, I look at five different papers, and try each one with seven different pen-and-ink combinations.