Go to inks

[Spideysgirl]

What is your favorite ink and do you keep a pen in your rotation with that ink in it?

[RocketRyan]

One pen always has Pelikan turquoise in it, pen can vary though.

[jar]

No favorite. I like pretty much all inks. In fact most often I don't know what ink is in a pen.

[BayesianPrior]

Pelikan 4001 Brillant Black. Quick drying, some water resistance, suitable for any occasion. It just works.

Sailor Jentle Blue-Black. See above, but a little bit more character.

[Jon Szanto]

Of all the inks I own, there are three inks that are always in at least one pen: Aurora Blue, Namiki Blue, and Sailor Kiwa-Guro. Next most common are Aurora Black (and probably, soon, Aurora Blue/Black) and Diamine Sherwood Green.

[KKay]

At this time I do not keep any ink in a permanent rotation. I may start keeping a black, blue black pen inked. But I haven't done so yet. Sometimes I refill a pen once or twice with the same ink, back to back, but that is about it. I get bored with an ink if I use it all the time. So I like to switch around all the time. I do not have a designated sample ink pen either. I pretty well fill a pen with an ink that strikes my fancy during that time period. There for a while I was using KWZ Grapefruit pretty constantly in a very fine nib. But I was starting to get bored with it, so I pulled it out of rotation for a little while. I do not have one favorite ink either. I have several favorites...lol.

What is your favorite ink and do you keep a pen in your rotation with that ink in it?

[Lady Onogaro]

Good question. I always have a pen inked with Lamy turquoise, come to think of it.

[inklord]

Two inks are almost always in use: Rohrer & Klingner "Salix" and Sailor "Chu-Shu", one is ALWAYS in at least one pen: Rohrer & Klingner "Sepia".
Lately Sailor "Sei-Boku" is a runner up.

[FredRydr]

What is your favorite ink and do you keep a pen in your rotation with that ink in it?

Montblanc Toffee, and I always keep my Sheaffer Balance OS with full flex nib filled with Toffee, ready to write.

Fred

[Jon Szanto]

What is your favorite ink and do you keep a pen in your rotation with that ink in it?

Montblanc Toffee, and I always keep my Sheaffer Balance OS with full flex nib filled with Toffee, ready to write.

Fred

"I filled my pen with toffee - what could go wrong?"

[FredRydr]

I saw that! But I let it go.

Fred

[Robert]

As time goes by it seems that, regardless of ink color or pen, you'll most likely find Iroshizuku inks in my pens.

[Jon Szanto]

I saw that! But I let it go.

Argh - don't do that to me!

[inklord]

What is your favorite ink and do you keep a pen in your rotation with that ink in it?

Montblanc Toffee, and I always keep my Sheaffer Balance OS with full flex nib filled with Toffee, ready to write.

Fred

...that's one ink I should try...

[Paddler]

Two of my pens are inked with Parker Quink blue/black. It makes no maintenance hassles in any of my pens (doesn't clog, doesn't rot the sacs, etc). It behaves well with most papers. It is widely available, cheap, and blue. My ink cellar has many other brands and colors that I use at whim in the other two inked pens.

[sharmon202]

Always a Sailor clear candy with Sei Boku for addressing envelopes. Been using cartridges in this pen for 3 years continuously, no cleaning or changing ink.

[Scooby921]

At this time I do not keep any ink in a permanent rotation. I may start keeping a black, blue black pen inked. But I haven't done so yet. Sometimes I refill a pen once or twice with the same ink, back to back, but that is about it. I get bored with an ink if I use it all the time. So I like to switch around all the time. I do not have a designated sample ink pen either. I pretty well fill a pen with an ink that strikes my fancy during that time period. There for a while I was using KWZ Grapefruit pretty constantly in a very fine nib. But I was starting to get bored with it, so I pulled it out of rotation for a little while. I do not have one favorite ink either. I have several favorites...lol.

What is your favorite ink and do you keep a pen in your rotation with that ink in it?

Same here. I do have some favorites, but I get bored of using the same ink all the time. I rotate through inks any time a pen runs out. I also rotate through pens at the same time. I don't usually have more than 3 inked at any given time, so running out of ink is a good time to rotate in a new pen with a different ink. Even doing this I often feel bad when using my TWSBI 580. It holds so much more ink and takes so much longer to use up that I start to feel guilty for not rotating to another pen and ink at a faster rate.

[notsim]

I have a Realo always inked with Yama Dori.

[Pennanngalan]

I always have a pen filled with Noodler's Heart of Darkness, 50% ink/50% distilled water (I like black ink to have shading). The 54th Mass. used to be a staple but the blue and the black components seem to separate and I just refuse to deal with that.

[mdeleon]

I love blue/turquoise ink so I always have Pelikan Turquoise, Lamy Turquoise and Noodler's Liberty's Elysium inked up. About to add Sailor Jentle Yama-Dori and Robert Oster Fire and Ice to the mix.