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    Default A Dry Black Ink Please

    I have recently purchased a Lamy 2000 pen with medium nib, that I want to use with black or blackish blue-black ink. Inks I have tried so far (I won't list them here) all deposit too much ink on the page. Can someone please recommend the driest ink in the colour range I want?

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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    You should take a look at Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black. Not only is it dry but it is inexpensive and has a degree of water resistance.

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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    Monteverde Blue-Black. Also inexpensive and bone dry. It's in a Jinhao Shark and writes like a pencil.
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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    Another vote for Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black as a dry writing ink.
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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black is the driest writing ink I have tried (of several). I have had two gushy, vintage, Wahl Ringtops that can lay down ink at an out of control rate. My Parker 21 is similarly a super wet writer and tends to pool ink in the hood and drip at the slightest provocation. The Pelikan ink tames all these down wonderfully.

    It also works in my other wet-writing pens: Montblanc 221, Lamy Safari, and Pilot Stargazer (maybe a bit too dry for the latter).

    It resists feathering and dries relatively quickly and will not completely wash off of a page in the event of a bad spill.

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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    A dry ink means quick drying? I have Pelican 4001 in blue-black and dark green at the moment, not too far from Parker Quink. They behave fine in most pens, even the ones that let out quite a bit of ink. I can write on news papers and print paper with out any fuzz. I guess you just have to try, brands and models behave differently, even identical pens can differ sometimes. Lamy 2000 should be of the nicer ones, the best advice would of course be from Lamy 2000 owners.
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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    Pilot blue-black (regular one, not iroshizuku) or waterman intense black gets my vote.

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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    Quote Originally Posted by arrow View Post
    A dry ink means quick drying? I .
    I understand it to mean that it tends to resist flowing or flows less. Like Take-sumi gushes out of one of my pen and Pelikan barely flows.

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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    Take Sumi has long been my go to ink for poorly performing nibs. If the nib doesn’t write with Take Sumi, it doesn’t write.0

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    Default Re: A Dry Black Ink Please

    Agree with above. It has cured hard starting pens for me.

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