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Hurray! Staples has produced their excellent Sustainable Earth sugarcane paper as graph paper now! The pads are 8 1/2 x 11 inches and have 100 sheets. They are filler paper (i.e. they are not a bound pad... the sheets are loose-leaf and without a chipboard backing). The printed lines are light tan and very unobtrusive, especially compared with other graph paper with the blue lines. The paper is fountain pen friendly, with no feathering and little to no show-through on the back side (no bleed-through, either). At least the show-through isn't bothersome enough for me to avoid writing on the backside, but others may not think so (see scans below). The only thing I don't like about it is the fact that it's already been hole-punched. That, and maybe the price, which is a bit high: $10.39 for 100-sheets. You can only buy this online, not in-store. If you have a Staples Reward card, you get free shipping to your house; otherwise, you can get free shipping by ordering it and picking it up at the store. All in all, an excellent paper. Order it at Staples here (Item: 77272). Writing samples: Back side (degree of show-through):

Staples has a spiral bound graph notebook available. It is 4 squares per inch, comes in 70 sheets, sized 8 inches by 10 1/2 inches (203 mm x 266 mm). I comes 3 hole punched on the left side and has a perforated left side. White paper with light blue grid. Product # 40698. It says the paper is made in Egypt. Tested as follows: Bulow x450, F nib with Diamine Evergreen Sheaffer Sagaris F nib, Sheaffer blue cartridge Sheaffer Clearview 1.o mm with Diamine claret Sheaffer Clearview 1.5 mm with Tanzanite Sailor M-F nib with De Atrimentis Midnight blue Pilot 78G with B nic, Pilot black ink cartridge Cross F nib with Shin-ryoku So, with this cross section of pens, nibs and inks no feathering at all. A tiny bit of show through, you would have to see if your pen is wet enough to preclude both front and back of page being used. I think I can use both. Pro: $2.00, to me a good price sturdy flex front cover, hard cardboard rear cover perforations and 3 hole punch behavior with my fountain pens (A-) Cons: You may not like the size of the grid you may prefer a paper with more of a quality feel or higher weight paper

Don't get me wrong; I certainly understand the value of the way graph paper is lined. But as far as quality goes, isn't it even thinner than copier paper and otherwise low quality stuff?