I had similar experiences with my Noodler ink. They have a blue that is imo the nicest dark Prussian blue on the market. Unfortunately, it gave my Water Kultur, then Lamy 2000 endless clogging problems. The Pilot Ishigaki line of inks is probably the best compromise between color and reliability.
Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011)
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#62diamine is great. oxblood is one of my favorites.
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#63If you're not a caligrapher, why bother? Just buy gel pens and get the comfort with way less maintenance.
I didn't get it until i used a nice ink and pen. the gliding action is an aesthetic experience
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#64There's a really fantastic review of fountain pen culture within Something Awful at https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=37... that makes me laugh every time. Seems appropriate here.
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#65Could someone change this to http://richardspens.com/ref/care/inks.htm ? The current link ( http://richardspens.com/index_m.html?page=ref/care/inks.htm ) is a "please allow us to run arbitrary malicious code on your computer" nag page.
That page seems better anyhow, so ok.
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#66Dude hates Noodler's ink, but Noodler's brought back fountain pen interest. I still only use Noodler's inks, including Baystate but not the weird ones.
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#67My wife and I both draw with Namiki Falcon fountain pens, which are fantastic, and use Platinum Carbon Black ink, which is a pigmented ink. I don't know if it's nano-particles (i.e., the pigment is ground extremely fine so brownian motion alone is sufficient to maintain dispersion), but we've never experienced clogging, and it has a permanence (and blackness) on par with Noodler's Bulletproof Black. She uses her pen…
Which weight? I had a fine for a while and it was the worst thing to use, it scratched worse than a 4H pencil... (currently using a Bock #6 titanium nib in a $20 Noodler's Konrad and the amount of flex and control is second only to a vintage gold nib).
We both have extra fine nibs, and haven't found them to be scratchy at all. I do recall a bit of a break-in period with hers, making circles on a sheet of paper for a while, to smooth it out.
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#68To all the people who keep asking why we would bother write with a fountain pen, a few reasons I do:
People are less likely to walk away or accidentally steal your fountain pen
I can write in the exact colour I want
I know scribbles or notes are mine without even looking at the writing
My colleagues know which pieces of notes are mine without asking My notebooks never wander far
I don't feel like I'm constantly killing the planet by binning my pen when it runs out of ink, I can just use the piston cartridge to constantly refill from a glass ink pot
It feels better in my hand than a biro
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#69I've used fountain pens long ago, but the Tul gel pens are my cherished replacement.
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#70This articles says that inkjet ink "frequently uses pigment, not dye," but my understanding is that most inkjet inks are actually dye-based, and that you have to somewhat go out of your way to find pigment-based ones (and they cost more). The latter are usually recommended for archival printing purposes (e.g. Epson's "Dura Brite" inks), because they are less likely to fade over time and are better bonded with the pap…
Which one is it that won't run when I put a coffee mug down on my notebook? Because that's the one I want.
Impact paper. It's the future.