Happy I could have helped.
I quote enjoy TR but to be honest I like
Clairefontaine Triomphe better. It’s smooth but not to smooth. As for the smudges, highly saturated inks while they look great on TR, often smudge. I tend to stay away from them as they are a pain to clean out our pens.
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AzJon (May 21st, 2019)
There are high quality paper made all over the world. There are various ways to make it, the most common is to use cellulose from wood, and it can be all kinds of qualities from tissue paper to the £, € or $ notes we handle. The best paper I have are made from cloth or cotton fibers, it's some times called "wood-free" paper or canvas paper. The fibers have to come from some plant drived source, but are more refined and of better quality than the wood pulp commonly used. Good paper or high quality paper doesn't have to be very expensive, but it has to suit the end users purpose. Fibers can be coarse or fine, surface can be absorbant or repellant, thick or thin,... what ever the source of the cellulose is.
I like fine grained paper, maybe have a very subtle texture, the so called hand made paper I have had are mostly suitable for craft and special purposes other than notebooks and writing. I guess Hanji paper is a bit special, almost in the category of papyrus and parchment. I'm not sure what the modern Japanese Tomoe paper is made of. The odd thing is, at some point writing paper in general were made to agree well with most inks, and to a large degree still are. There are inks and pens that can be used on any paper made for writing or printing. For dip pens and very wet fountain pens I need to be a bit more careful when I choose paper.
Side tracking a bit, but I have yet to see some of the new type notes. The types I have seen, have added a metal stripes, or other high teck stuff into the paper to make it hard to forge, but the base is still paper.
Can the water resistant inks be more suitable for less absorbant paper, where the ink hardly cuts the surface at all. I'm thinking of inks like Pelikan Fount India, it's a bit different.
Wasn't anyone curious?
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