Mead Loose Leaf Paper, 1 Pack, 3 Hole Punched, Graph Ruled Paper, 10-1/2" x 8", 400 Sheets/Pack (150038-ECM)

Standard quality graphing paper in a high quantity. I take professional exams twice a year that require ~700 hours of studying in total. I usually go through 8-12 notebooks for notes/practice but this is a much cheaper option. Definitely load up if you know you’re going to need it.

Mead is a good brand and it shows in the quality of this paper. It's not very thick but works fine. I use graph paper to work out landscape designs and for designing my vegetable garden each year. I save these in a binder so the 3 punch holes come in handy.

Graph paper is so expensive these days. I don't really understand it to be honest but this Mead paper is a decent price - about $2.85 for 100 sheets which is good. I have some other Mead graph paper that has the reinforced holes and I actually don't like that. I use a printer with this paper quite often and the plastic reinforced edge does not play well with the ink. So, I like that this is just plain unreinforced paper. I am not crazy about the weird paper size (8" x 10.5") but I can work around that. The paper is pretty thin - you can even trace through it - but most graph paper is thin so this is no different. Overall solid for the price.

The paper is a bit thinner than ruled notebook paper but, my partner, who's in education, says it's pretty much standard. You might get some bleed-through with roller ball pens or markers though.

I love graph paper. I wish it weren't so much more expensive than ruled paper, but in this quantity, the price isn't bad. And it's MEAd, so you know you're getting quality. I use graph paper pretty regularly for sketching out projects around the house. I'm not an architect or carpenter, but I often like to monkey around with things on paper first when planning out a garden or renovation/reorginization project. I also dabble in creating crossword puzzles, and use this paper for them too. It holds up to plenty of erasing when needed.

It's useful to compare this paper to classic engineering paper shown in photo 1. Engineering paper has boxes at the top for recording name, date, project, etc. The graph paper has 5 lines per inch and lines on one-inch intervals are bold to aid in sketching. Engineering paper is nice to work with, but is expensive, and it's annoying that the back side is generally not useable since the grid lines on the back are so dark.What about this Mead loose-leaf graph paper (photo 2)? First of all, it's a lot less expensive. The grid lines are dark enough to be seen but not so dark that they confuse the drawings. There are no bold lines at one inch intervals, which is a small disadvantage. Also, there are no boxes at the top for recording your name and date, etc. This could be a problem for some applications I suppose. Both sides of the paper are useable since the line darkness on the back is the same as on the front. As an engineering professor, I go through a lot of paper and I'd go broke if I had to use regular engineering paper. This paper works great for me and I like the price.

I’ve been burned before buying a pack of graphing paper because I only saw the front side of each sheet and later discovered that the back side was blank. That’s NOT what you’ll find with this quality graph paper by Mead; it’s printed well on both sides of each sheet. On top of that, they’ve pre-punched it for three-hole notebooks so you don’t have to!The size of this grid is four squares to the inch. This makes it an easy “translation” for young students who may need to draw a science experiment to scale (such as showing daily seed germination with scale drawings) as well as graphing mathematic results.The paper feels like about 80# text weight (about the same as typical copy paper). The grids are printed in a light blue (despite the product photo here for the item making it appear grey); every square is the same, there are no heavier lines indicating five- or ten-grids. That means, though, that this ruled paper can be used for a variety of purposes.The package contains a generous 400 sheets.

Even though the description says these are 10 1/2 by 8 inches, I expected them to be "normal" letter sized (11 x 8 1/2 inches). But—that was the only surprise—this is nice 1/4 inch grid paper, printed on both sides, in a pale blue. I have a real fondness for graph paper—much of my professional life was spent doing quick hand sketches to discuss options with my staff and clients, and I pretty much always used grid paper. Now, around the house, I still find myself sketching out ideas; sometimes they end up turning into hours spent with CAD as I get whatever level of pans done that I need, but often, a smile sketch is it.And the grid lines make it faster to keep things at scale, and have some degree of geometry. Mead is one of the major players in office paper; this is nice paper—not fancy by any means, but it has a smooth surface, is a good white, and can take a few erasures.