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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Quote Originally Posted by TSherbs View Post
    I just checked my sample sheet of black inks from over the years. My PCB lines actually have more grey in them than a bunch of others, including Lamy, JHerbin Perle Noir, Noodler's HOD, and Aurora....all of which were solid deep black.
    Oh wow. I'll have to check some old notebooks, see if I'll find gray and not deep, shiny black.
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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Quote Originally Posted by ethernautrix View Post

    Oh wow. I'll have to check some old notebooks, see if I'll find gray and not deep, shiny black.
    No problem. I was surprised by what I saw (Rhodia pad paper), so I thought that I would report it. Maybe it was my pen, or sample, or something.



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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Just checked back six years in my What's Inked log, coincidently also Rhodia pad made into a notebook, and my PCB looks black enough. Maybe a bit less shiny, but I'm hardly the person to judge given I hadn't noticed its shininess in the first place! The Perle Noir sitting next to one of the entries is, I would say, blacker, but where it's shaded understandably greyer. Were it to get wet, of course, results would differ greatly, but I'm not putting my log under the tap just now.
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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Before Noodlers Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black was rated for decades as second to Aurora.
    I still have 2/3s of the bottle I bought 13 years ago on my return to fountain pens, so will never get the Aurora just for the hell of it.

    Some folks using an EF nib on PPP...very, very poor paper claimed it was gray. I found it quite black but I was using 80g printer paper, which I now consider sort of poor.

    So they were using real, real poor paper with an EF nib....come to think about it, the complainer didn't say what pen he was using...for all I know it could have been a Japanese EF.

    I do think a bottle of 4001 black is easy to find, cheap and quite black.

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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Hi. After finding most FP inks fall off dipper nibs ! I got a bottle of pigmented black acrylic ink from OrnasoNova
    ...probably wouldn't use it in an FP, but I haven't tried .
    It's a super black ink which dries quite shiny !

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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Private Reserve Velvet Black (or is it Black Velvet?) is an alleged sheeniac.
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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Quote Originally Posted by Robalone View Post
    Hi. After finding most FP inks fall off dipper nibs ! I got a bottle of pigmented black acrylic ink from OrnasoNova
    ...probably wouldn't use it in an FP, but I haven't tried .
    It's a super black ink which dries quite shiny !

    Can't recommend OrnasoNova enough as an awesome site 👍🏻👍🏻
    I only can strongly recommend not to put any acrylic ink into a FP, same is true for Shellack based inks.

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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Koh I noor - Document black is a very interesting black. It has a gold-ish sheen...
    Last edited by Yazeh; December 23rd, 2021 at 08:59 AM.

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    Default Re: What's a good shiny, dark black ink?

    Colorverse Check ink is absolutely Black & shines crazy but to me it is the exact opposite of the beauty of a Tahitian black pearl. Shimmer free though. I do not much like it, don't know why? I also have Anchor, OH Perm.Black, Perele Noir, MB Per. Black, Namiki, Kiwa Guro etc. that I do not use. I use Take-sumi & Sailor Jentle Black all the time.

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