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Comment on Weighing in on Moleskine paper by ana

ana — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:43:17 +0000

I work in the print industry and can tell you where the actual values originate, at least for English measurement. Take 500 sheets of uncut paper, usually about 26×40″ and weigh it. So, thicker paper will weigh 70 lbs, maybe 80 lbs. But not all manufacturers cut the sheets to the same size so one company may use a 23X35″ sheet. The European gsm uses slightly different calculations but the results are similar.

This site is a great quick view of the comparison: http://www.paper-paper.com/weight.html

Copy paper is usually about 24-28 lb which looks a little heavier than your calculation for the Moleskine paper. Wow.

Thanks for being so thorough.

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Comment on Weighing in on Moleskine paper by Brian Goulet

Brian Goulet — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:01 +0000

Wow, I’m almost overwhelmed by all the data! I’ll be honest, I’m much more of a back-of-the-envelope kinda guy, and everything you’ve shown here validates that I should be that kinda guy Thanks for giving me so much credit, it’s actually pretty nice to see someone back up my Moleskine paper weight measurement, as I really just used what I viewed as common sense and a little algebra to try to, like you put it, get ‘good enough’. Besides, I don’t even like Moleskine paper so the gsm doesn’t matter to me! One thing I will say though, is that GSM isn’t the only factor in how paper performs with fountain pen ink. There are some Japanese papers especially that are remarkably thing (50-60gsm) that perform as well as the 120gsm European papers. So there are definitely other things going on. But the paper weight is certainly a good indicator of its quality if you have no other information to go on.

Comment on The Moleskine IPO by Fred Pilarczyk

Fred Pilarczyk — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:26:06 +0000

Awesome article. It’s sad that Moleskine doesn’t even factor into the function component at all.

Sadly, I still buy some Moleskines. The new Mickey Mouse ones are cool, which is something we’ll unfortunately probably never see from Rhodia or Clairfontaine. My fountain pens have never touched a Moleskine though, and never will. It’ll end up sad, and I’d rather avoid that.