Springhill White 8.5” x 14” Cardstock Paper, 67lb Vellum Bristol, 147gsm, 250 Sheets (1 Ream) – Premium Lightweight Cardstock, Vellum Printer Paper with Textured Finish – 016002R

I am an avid colorist. I use colored pencils to color. As a hobbyist, I didn't want to color in some of the books I had purchased because I was still learning so much and wanted to practice. I started to copy my books and after several different types and weights of paper, I ended up preferring this paper to any of the others I had tried. It was superior to the paper in the coloring books 99 percent of the time. I wanted a paper which you could erase where necessary without destroying all the tooth of the paper. While I now try to use only the Faber Castell box that lifts the pigment off the page, I also have a Tombow eraser and an electric one which allows me to erase a fine detail. I also wanted a paper that you could apply many layers of pencil to as a beginner I was always having to add color to get the desired result. Recently I had a book which I did color in as I knew I wasn't crazy about the images and would never want to repeat them. That book had a slicker paper and I did like it both in terms of application of the pencil and the end result. So I purchased two other papers to compare to this one to see what difference the paper actually makes. I purchased a really bright white paper of the same weight as this, the Hammermill Premium Color Copy 80 pound paper as well as the Exact Neehan Bristol Vellum in a 67 pound weight. This review compares the three papers for colored pencil purposes. Keeping in mind that I am a hobbyist, not an artist, I colored the same page from Wild Soul book by Grazio Salvo. I used primarily the Lyra Rembrant polycolor oil pencil, with a few Tombow Irojitens and Prismacolor Verithins which are both wax based. I used the same pencil colors and tried to make everything the same in coloring the three different papers. I was truly surprised at the outcome. In all but two areas this paper was hands down the best paper for colored pencils. The Hammermill was the brightest white. This paper jammed in my printer and the other two did not. Otherwise in all comparisons I would recommend this paper. In the photo showing all three, this paper is first, followed by the 67 pound Neeham Bristol Vellum, with the Hammermill paper shown last. I did identify the papers in the margin as well as drawing lines to show where I used different ways to blend. Although the background had the same number of layers applied in a cross hatch with a single blue pencil, it appeared deeper and darker blue in this paper than in the other two. The Hammermill slick finished paper just didn't accept as many layers of color. (I actually added two more layers with that paper for a total of 8 layers!) There wasn't a huge difference between the 67 pound Bristol vellum and this bristol vellum so if money is a factor the 67 pound is obviously less expensive. As I look at the outcome on this paper I see numerous places where I should go back to adjust the color. With this heavier weight, I can easily do so. In the background I also tried three different blending techniques, Gamisol, Caran d'Ache full blender pencil and a white colored Lyra pencil. The Gamisol (oderless mineral spirits) had the largest area in front of the women's head to the top of page. Because this paper is thicker I didn't have to worry as much about the liquid blender. It blended very well with this method on this paper. With the Hammermill, I ended up with a bunch of pigment on the end of my qtip, so instead of blending I was removing! The bottom corner under the tiger's nose was not blended at all. The area in front of the tiger's nose was blended with a white Lyra pencil. It did lighten the color slightly when blending. The best result was behind the women's head where I used a Caran 'd Ache full color blending pencil. This pencil actually feels like you are putting down wax while blending. The result was to eliminate the pencil lines and get a deep blended blue color, that fully saturated the paper. While there were significant differences between the Bristol Vellum papers and the Hammermill papers, the difference between the two Bristol Vellum papers was fairly minimal. As this paper was my first and the other Bristol Vellum my third coloring of the same image I would expect improvement even in such a short rushed period of time. That was in fact the case, but the improvement had nothing to do with the paper only the person using the paper! Even with the occasional jamming issue I really love this paper. I have copied over 450 pages to copy at this point. (I am on my second ream and about half of it is gone.) As I am making these copies to practice, I do copy on both sides of the paper. All three papers performed well in copying on both sides. I would recommend you try a variety of papers if possible as much of this may be merely personal preference. From my point of view using this paper has only made me more critical of the paper used in most adult coloring books. For 250 sheets the price is very fair. This paper was less expensive than other identical paper made by other manufacturers. Without question this paper will be my first choice when coping images to color with colored pencil. (I would also think this paper would be preferable for wetter mediums, watercolor or marker, as it is thicker and will not bleed through as easily. Because it has more tooth or texture, I would think it would be better in that regard the slicker paper of equal weight.)

I am just getting into drawing and coloring and was searching for a paper I could run through my printer that was the next step up from copy paper. This paper (which was recommended by a few You Tube artists who teach adult coloring) definitely fits the bill as it is heavier and more substantial than copy paper with a little tooth for blending and layering colors. I don't understand the paper classification system very well, so whether this paper should be labeled as cardstock, bristol, vellum, all of the above, or none of the above is beyond my pay grade. What I can say based on my personal experience is that this is the heaviest paper that I am able to run through my printer...though not easily. I have an HP Officejet Pro 8620 (inkjet) and I kept all fingers crossed the first time I tried printing this on paper. While I was pleasantly surprised that it worked, I must add that it doesn't always work on the first try, and I sometimes need to feed the sheet through a few times before achieving success. I am therefore only able to print pages one at a time while monitoring the outcome and re-doing as needed. Fortunately, when a piece of this paper won't go through the roller, it doesn't jam anything up, - which is what happened when I tried printing on a heavier weight watercolor paper. I should note that I have an older printer, and at the time I purchased it several years ago, I wasn't even thinking about printing out anything heavier than copy paper. So YMMV and your printer may be able to handle this paper more robustly. I personally don't mind the little bit of extra time and effort involved in getting this paper to print on my printer, since I don't ever need to print more than a few pages at a time.

Good quality card stock paper! Served me well for use as a queue cards during presentations.

I've been trying to find good paper for printing out artwork for the purposes of coloring (primarily with colored pencils). This has been challenging because a lot of heavier, cardstock papers don't have the correct texture (and tooth) to handle significant layering of colors very well (after layering a few colors, the colored pencil pigment and wax would just start to ball up and glob together, which looks really bad). With the Digital Vellum, though, I think I've found a winner! The texture and tooth of the paper is really nice but with a much better weight. I think the tooth of the Vellum is actually better, though, as it seems to handle layering of several colors much better. The only real downside that I can come up with is that, at 80#, it's not quite as stiff as the cardstock I originally tried... but it's still certainly strong enough to stand up to coloring on. I reprinted a bunch of pictures onto the Digital Vellum and my printer (HP OfficeJet 8710) handled it pretty well. There were a few times where it had trouble feeding the paper but I just had to flip the top sheet in the tray over and then it worked. (It might have fed better if I chose the "Plain, Thick Paper" type, instead.) I tried to attach a picture that I printed onto the Digital Vellum with my InkJet printer and have started coloring but I don't think they liked that... so you'll just have to take my word for it that I've been able to get the best looking skin tone on this paper than I have with any others. With other papers, skin tones were particularly difficult because you need to layer several different colors in order to achieve a nice, rich color (and then layer in even more for shadowing and accenting)... and most of the other papers I tried started to show the globbing and balling of the colored pencil wax after three or so layers. This effect is especially noticeable with lighter colors (like the peaches, beiges, and pinks that go into skin tones). If I had tried the same combination of colors for the skin tones on the other papers I've tried, you would see globbing and nonuniformity of the colored pencils—especially in the darker, shaded areas of the skin tones—but that didn't occur with the Digital Vellum! Even after a half-dozen layers of colors, there was still enough tooth in the paper left that it didn't just smear or glob when I went over with the colorless blending pencil. So, all in all, I'd call the Digital Vellum a win!

There is a subtle tooth with a Vellum Bristol paper that help with the lay down of colored pencil layers. I've tried several brands of this type of paper but I like this one best. I'm actually not quite sure why, but the tooth seems better. I also think that most other brands come in a 67# weight and this 80# weight is more substantial. So whether I'm printing coloring pages for adult color pencil users, or children using crayons or markers, this paper handles it all very nicely. The sturdy weight is helpful with young children also as the outcome of their work is not all crumpled as printer weight paper usually ends up.

This paper is a great substitute for the Neenah card stock it has replaced for my needs. The price is significantly lower than the Neenah bristol vellum I have been using, and I will be using it from now on (if still available in the future).

This paper is a joy to work with! Lots of tooth which is great for my color pencil artwork. I can't say enough good things about this merchant! Somehow the post office delivered my order to the wrong address even though all of the paperwork was correct. I contacted this merchant and they immediately took steps to rectify the situation by shipping a replacement order rather than waiting for the post office to straighten out their error. I will continue to buy from them and you would be wise to do business with them as well.

This cardstock is good quality for the price. It works well in the home printer for homemade cards and announcements and flyers.