List of papers which "sheen"

[Eoghan2009]

I have 160gsm Colotech+,  it is heavy and I would like to know if there are other lighter sheen papers.  I am looking for bulk purchases 500 pages at a time preferably without bleed through.  Bank of Scotland 70gsm receipt paper sheens nicely so it must be possible.  Itis all down to the finish.

[A Smug Dill]

11 hours ago, Eoghan2009 said:

... I would like to know if there are other lighter sheen papers.  I am looking for bulk purchases 500 pages at a time preferably without bleed through.

 

Seriously? Anyone who has been on FPN more than thrice would have been smacked in the face by gushy praise for Tomoe River FP 52gsm paper at least once. Sakae Technical Paper packages and sells them in 50-sheet and 100-sheet packs in A4 and A5 sizes. (Nothing stops you from ordering 5, 10 or even 20 packs at a time, with or without being offered bulk purchase discounts.) Even Amazon sells those.

 

 

Sheen galore. Bleedthrough is exceedingly rare. Show-through is entirely expected.

 

(However, those retail products are being discontinued.)

 

Edited June 27, 2021 by A Smug Dill
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[Karmachanic]

Copy and paste this in your browser search engine:

site:fountainpennetwork.com, paper, sheen

[Eoghan2009]

On 6/26/2021 at 5:19 PM, A Smug Dill said:

 

Seriously? Anyone who has been on FPN more than thrice would have been smacked in the face by gushy praise for Tomoe River FP 52gsm paper at least once. Sakae Technical Paper packages and sells them in 50-sheet and 100-sheet packs in A4 and A5 sizes. (Nothing stops you from ordering 5, 10 or even 20 packs at a time, with or without being offered bulk purchase discounts.) Even Amazon sells those.

 

 

Sheen galore. Bleedthrough is exceedingly rare. Show-through is entirely expected.

 

(However, those retail products are being discontinued.)

 

 

At £100 per ream this is for Montblanc users not use Parker 25 folks.  My wife would have kittens if I bought paper at this price!

 

...and I am a dog lover!

[samasry]

1 hour ago, Eoghan2009 said:

 

At £100 per ream this is for Montblanc users not use Parker 25 folks.  My wife would have kittens if I bought paper at this price!

 

...and I am a dog lover!

 

Yet, with respect to  paper quality, you are lucky to be in Europe.  You are looking for the last 10% of optimizing the solution for your paper needs, while we in the US can not find even the basic  fountain pen friendly paper, let alone this sheen thing, without paying an arm and a leg.

 

When I look at your selection, you can get   Clairefontaine and many other nice paper at  30% to 20% of what we have to pay here in the States.   

 

People seem to be happy (even proud)  to pay  a quarter+  per page in place of 1 or 2 cents. I have seen really good  paper at  1 cent  per sheet, so it is doable,  but you blink and they are gone;  changed to match  other paper makers in a race to the bottom.

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

18 hours ago, Eoghan2009 said:

At £100 per ream this is for Montblanc users not use Parker 25 folks.

 

Or one could argue that, by not spending the price differential between a Montblanc and a Parker 25, a fountain pen user would have more money to splurge on paper and ink in focused pursuit of getting sheen, shading, or whatever it is that gives him enjoyment from writing with his pen(s) and make a hobby out of it. 😏

 

You wanted to know about “lighter sheen papers”. 52gsm is about as light as still-usable-for-writing paper comes, and Tomoe River FP is famous for eliciting sheen from just about any ink that's remotely capable of exhibiting it; countless sheen-chasing fellow hobbyists have attested to that on blogs, in discussion forums, etc. online.

 

Or we could talk about Midori MD paper (which is not sold in reams of loose sheets, as far as I'm aware), Maruman paper (same caveat), etc. which are well-regarded by many fountain pen devotees, even though they aren't specialised “fountain pen friendly” papers, and their manufacturers and distributors don't market the products as such.

 

18 hours ago, Eoghan2009 said:

My wife would have kittens if I bought paper at this price!

 

While there is nothing inherently wrong with either economical or commonplace, I think those qualities make paper products to which those adjectives can be attributed less interesting, for the purposes of, “Wow, you really know (especially high-end and/or niche, yet globally known) paper products and which ones can deliver specific technical characteristics!” type of geeky discussion favoured among enthusiasts who are in it “for the experience” of choosing an ink and putting nib to paper.

 

Otherwise, if it's only about producing sheen on the page somehow and preferably cheaply, I can even get sheen writing with a ballpoint pen on stone paper: