Coated Paper Problems!

[Sailor Kenshin]

One of my favorite papers has been the stuff in Kokuyo Campus notebooks (both grades, 30 pages). Perfect size, and I've been happily using it for years. One day, a Wing Sung 601 filled with Quink Blue started dragging, the ink coming out pale and stingy. I flushed the pen. No difference.

 

It wasn't the pen. Several other pen-ink combos exhibited the same problems: stingy ink flow. I have been using that (and other KC) notebooks with pencil for things like shopping and to-do lists. But I have also recently noticed similar problems with some Clairefontaine and Rhodia papers! As though the coating itself was somehow clogging the tines of the pen.

 

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[gpsgrandpa]

In a word yes! I have wondered if it is a combination of a possible sharp edge and wet ink flow. It is something that just pops up for me from nothing too full on. So far a wipe with rag or floss with brass sheet has worked. I have began changing to using mostly Tomoe River paper but I still have a lot of Rhodia/Clairefontaine paper to use up.

[senzen]

This comes up regularly, it's usually your own oils as you move your hand on the page; I use a folded sheet of copy paper under my hand as I write, problem solved; other people use plastic sheets, use whatever's more convenient.

[Sailor Kenshin]

In a word yes! I have wondered if it is a combination of a possible sharp edge and wet ink flow. It is something that just pops up for me from nothing too full on. So far a wipe with rag or floss with brass sheet has worked. I have began changing to using mostly Tomoe River paper but I still have a lot of Rhodia/Clairefontaine paper to use up.

Thanks; it's good to know I'm not the only one.

[bizhe]

Yes, me too. Hand oil. Drier inks. Not new for me though. Pilot inks including iroshizuku tend to work well for me.

[gpsgrandpa]

I have a Sailor Pro Gear with a fine point and Seiboku ink that does it so much that I just don’t use it with coated papers or most papers for that matter. In this case it’s not hand oils and will eventually always do it with this pen. I use it with a Passport size notebook with Tomoe River paper and no problem. I never place a second page over any of the pages in this notebook. My thought was that it is getting the fibers wet and being so small that just a few caused it to suddenly write like a mop.

One observation I’ve had is that the issue shows up more on a coated paper notebook or notepad than when I use a single sheet or a single sheet with a lined page underneath.

It is an interesting issue and I thank you for bringing it up.

[bizhe]

Is this possible? Could be low humidity in winter makes the paper smoother? Not sure. I do know that some of my cheap papers get worse with feathering when it is humid.