HP Premium 32lb paper is widely regarded as the best fountain pen friendly printer paper. $15 for 500 sheets. It is really thick (120gsm).
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Follow-up - I bought this and it works great! And yes - it is really thick. I think the reams of the usual printer paper at the office are going to develop an inferiority complex. Thanks again for the recommendations!
This is what I use. It's the right size, works well with every nib I've tried, and it's inexpensive.
Kokuyo KB Business paper, I use it to print my own custom dot grids for disc binding.
It may be easier to find a more well behaved ink instead of trying to get everyone else at the office to use a heavier paper. However, Rhodia, Tomoe, and Clairefontaine are your go-to papers that are fountain pen friendly. But this isn't exactly something you'd keep around to run through the office printer.
If this is a private printer and you're running a few pages occasionally, you could get a decent A4 notepad and pull pages as needed.
I'm US based so unfortunately there's a mismatch in size. I'll probably just drop some sheets in right before I print, definitely not going to pay to replace everyone else's paper!
That's an interesting question, I hope you find something that's a good fit for your needs!