Re: Recommendations for a DRY dark blue?
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ESSRI - It's the driest ink I own. Not wet. Fast-drying even with a broad nib. Bluish-blackish depending on paper.
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Dreck
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Isn't that a P.O.S. Parker Vector?
Re: Recommendations for a DRY dark blue?
Montblanc Permanent Blue is fairly fast drying and a beautiful blue. This is a document ink. The only downside is the cost. I use it in an Edison Menlo with a fine nib and it is really good. I used to use this in my scientific notebooks. I haven’t tried Pelikan but heard it is really good too.
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This^^^
I even turned it into a link for you
Isn't that a P.O.S. Parker Vector?
Yup. You want to hear my sister-in-law's (she's a vicar) opinion of them when they've been filled with Registrar's ink for a while and no-one, naturally, has ever flushed it or maintained it at all. She lives in fear of there one day being a nasty ESSRI-meets-pristine-white-wedding-dress moment in the vestry as someone shakes it in a desperate bid to get it to write.
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I would never put ESSR ink in any of my modern pens. I just don't want to have to try cleaning it out if it starts to dry out in there. Each to their own though. :)
It's good that everyone is different.
Faber-Castell pens and ink are made in Germany. If I wanted a dry blue-black ink for a modern Faber-Castell pen I would start with Pelikan 4001.
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I would never put ESSR ink in any of my modern pens. I just don't want to have to try cleaning it out if it starts to dry out in there. Each to their own though. :)
It's good that everyone is different.
Faber-Castell pens and ink are made in Germany. If I wanted a dry blue-black ink for a modern Faber-Castell pen I would start with Pelikan 4001.
I'm a fan of ESSRI but I'm also a flush-and-clean every month or sooner guy.
Have you ever tried the R&K Salix? Thanks.
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Chrissy
I would never put ESSR ink in any of my modern pens. I just don't want to have to try cleaning it out if it starts to dry out in there. Each to their own though. :)
It's good that everyone is different.
Faber-Castell pens and ink are made in Germany. If I wanted a dry blue-black ink for a modern Faber-Castell pen I would start with Pelikan 4001.
I'm not denigrating your suggestion, but I do think you're missing out. ESSR was my daily use ink for several years, in pens both modern and older. It does require some cap discipline, but it was great at taming my very wet-writing ebonite eyedroppers, and even worked well in my Noodler's pens.
The OP asked for a dry blue ink recommendation, and I can't think of anything dryer :)
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Chrissy
I would never put ESSR ink in any of my modern pens. I just don't want to have to try cleaning it out if it starts to dry out in there. Each to their own though. :)
It's good that everyone is different.
Faber-Castell pens and ink are made in Germany. If I wanted a dry blue-black ink for a modern Faber-Castell pen I would start with Pelikan 4001.
I'm not denigrating your suggestion, but I do think you're missing out. ESSR was my daily use ink for several years, in pens both modern and older. It does require some cap discipline, but it was great at taming my very wet-writing ebonite eyedroppers, and even worked well in my Noodler's pens.
The OP asked for a dry blue ink recommendation, and I can't think of anything dryer :)
I understand what you're saying and many people use ESSRI. However, I don't like Blue-Black inks that much and I like IG inks even less. When IG inks were first invented I'm guessing most pens had rubber sacs. The OP's Faber-Castell must surely be a modern pen that wasn't designed with ESSRI ink in mind. As I said - each to their own. :) I'm quite happily missing out. ;)
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Trivia: iron gall inks were invented in the 5th century and was a standard ink in Europe for about 1400 years.
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Trivia: iron gall inks were invented in the 5th century and was a standard ink in Europe for about 1400 years.
Quite old then ;)
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Hi! New here, but I will definitely have to second or third the Noodler's Q'Eternity or whatever it's called. It's the ink I use at my job about 90% of the time, very well behaved for me, even on those green engineering pads. No bleed through and only minor show-through, though I only use one side of the page as a general rule. I have an older bottle, and it is a bit darker than @ineedafinancialadvisor reports, but it is otherwise just as described.
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https://www.gouletpens.com/products/...oz-bottled-ink
it IS (as correctly pointed out above) Part of the Bernanke series of inks
they ARE fast drying inks (you can watch it sink into the paper the way Parker Superchorme/"51" apparently did)
1-2 second drying time with a Wing Sung 601 nib on Rhodia Web Notebook paper.
I have a bottle, and i like it quite a bit.
My notes on it include:
Colour: i personally LOVE this colour but 10 of my 34 bottles of ink are blue blacks... YMMV
Shading: low/Nil
Saturation: Very Good
Feathering: yes, especially with wider wet nibs (shaking the hell out of the bottle before filling the pen does help mitigate this)
Spread: some, worse on cheaper papers
Cleaning from a pen: Easy
Bleed: yes if heavily applied to a page, even Rhodia web notebook paper will bleed through, but we're talking like 6mm pilot parallels and multiple passes level of application here
Waterproof: very good results. not PERFECT but very good.
best colour match to my bottle I have been able to find online is this one:
https://stationaryjourney.com/noodle...ity-ink-review
mine certainly does NOT look like the goulet swatch.
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Blackstone barrister blue.
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Lately I've been using MB Blue-black, the vintage IG version. Great ink!
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I have been especially pleased with Pelikan 4001 series royal blue in 62.5 mL bottle size. It is fairly dry and works very well in a wide range fountain pens. It’s not “fancy” ink, but it is a well-proven formula in my opinion, and consistent between batches.
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https://www.jetpens.com/De-Atramenti...ottle/pd/18360
I enjoy writing with this ink. Have their red and turquoise, both are very good for my purposes
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