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The current version — or at least the new retail packaging — of the Indonesian-made MUJI Planted Tree Paper notebooks, which I've complained about (and got MUJI to refund the purchase price of the summarily rejected goods), However, I decided to give this other MUJI Planted Tree Paper product (Japanese Article Number 4550002571153) which the label states is “bleed proof”, a fair go all the same. A$3.95 for 200 sheets would be pretty decent, if the paper is fountain pen-friendly, or at least can take a wet line or splotch of fountain pen ink and actually resist bleed-through somehow (even if there may be feathering, show-through, etc.). The whole pack is going back to MUJI tomorrow for refund. (Disclosure: Yes, the inks used and shown here were selected from those that have proven to bleed-through on an earlier test sheet. I had to be selective in picking just a handful of them, because I also wrote the same on a sheet of Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² paper, just so I can show the MUJI staff an example of “bleed proof”, and prove that those inks are specially formulated to bleed through every type of paper they encounter.)