Pelikan 4001 Bottled Ink for Fountain Pens, Royal Blue, 62.5ml, 1 Each (329136)

Excellent quality fountain pen ink. Rich Royal Blue color, the ink works well in any brand of fountain pen, including antique pens. It is water soluble so it's easy to clean up in case your pen leaks, but if you keep your paper dry, the ink doesn't smudge.

This product is well worth the purchase price. It is some of the best ink I’ve ever used.

I've been looking at various "safe" blue-black inks to use in my vintage pens, trying to decide which to get. After reading several reviews and comparing photos of the options, I settled on Pelikan's blue-black. It did NOT disappoint! I loaded up a vintage Esterbrook J fitted with a fine nib, and it writes wonderfully! A lot of reviews tout this ink as being on the dry side, but the Esterbrook is sufficiently wet to balance this out. I love that the ink goes down a more vibrant hue and transforms to a lovely dusty shade of blue as it dries, which is particularly fascinating on Rhodia paper. No major feathering or bleed-through on cheaper copy paper. Definitely recommend!

this is the good stuff, straight from Germany. Quality ink, flows smoothly, like the shade of blue.

I was very happy to find this ink available on Amazon. It's a nice blue-black, a good though not wildly amazing colour, but I needed a drier ink to tame my gusher of a Pilot Falcon. I always used blue-black in that pen anyway, and this is pretty close in colour to the Pilot ink I was using, but which was too wet in that pen. Now the pen writes much better and seems to do fine with the ink. I wouldn't recommend this ink for a pen that writes dry, but for a pen with very high flow (as most Pelikan pens are), this ink is great. I haven't tested it, but I believe it also has a decent amount of water resistance. I believe it has a little iron gall in it -- it does tend to darken on the page over time. I like that too.

Very nice ink, though I expected the ink to be darker as it runs rather dark and tends to dry quite a bit lighter. Dries fast, but you should still give it a second before touching.Packaging was nice though the product was a bit dusty - but that doesn’t really matter as the product was undamaged and matches product description.It’s hard to see in my photos, but the ink does blot out/feather very lightly around the edges of my writing.I also bought the black ink pit, and upon comparison immediately after opening, I noticed that the black ink was filled higher than the blue. Don’t know if that was a onetime defect of if it is common, but the black ink was filled up slightly into the neck while the blue wasn’t even filled up to to the bottom of the neck - by neck, I mean the part that comes up and is where the cap screws on.

Royal blue is outstanding. Vibrant, excellent flow and a bargain at this price. Very happy with my purchase.

I am new to FP-but this ink was recommended on a great forum called bestfountainpen.com so I started with it! I am using a Nemosine Fission fine nib fountain pen, which I also purchased on Amazon. The ink is great! At first it seems more purple than I wanted but as it dries it's a gorgeous royal blue color that pops but doesn't look out of sorts or immature. I work in an office with senior executives who I wouldn't want looking sideways at a funky purple ink color :-) l am using both a Rhodia notebook for my working notes and a clairefontaine book. The ink works extremely well on both but I prefer the Rhodia as it seems ever so slightly more porous than the Clairefontaine. There is no bleed through even when going over a letter multiple times or coloring in a circle or something like that. I've used it on regular decent printer paper as well and although much more thirsty than the previously mentioned high quality papers the ink keeps up and works just fine without bleeding almost at all.