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

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.

I don't spend a lot of time trying out new or different inks. I like one narrow range of shades of blue, basically, those that combine just enough purple to not lose the dominate blue, but enough to make it pop as unique and unmistakable. For a long time, I used Sheaffer Skrip blue, but eventually quit when I found it tended to fade after a couple of years. I use yellow notepads in my work for taking reading notes and writing instructional comments in my role as a university professor. Over the course of 8 to 10 years, I found that all my notes written in Sheaffer blue had faded to the point of being nearly unusable in class. And, I had no choice but to re-read whatever the source was and make new notes. That wasn't a bad idea anyway--re-reading and taking notes again--but, during the hectic flow of the semester, it became frustrating. So, I tried Pelikan Royal Blue after that and really liked it. But, for some reason, I kept on trying different inks that approximated the shade of blue I like. These included most notably Noodler's Ink, which I found always tended to flow too much ink through the various vintage pens that I restored and luxury pens I own. Then, I found Waterman's Florida Blue, which I really liked. But then, it was discontinued for some reason known only to the manufacturer. So, rather than embark on a new search--which I had neither the time nor money to commit--I decided to return to Pelikan, with which I never had a problem or complaint. Strange how it works, isn't it? You find something that serves your purpose and works well, then you keep trying to find something better. I've done that many times throughout my life and, more often than not, found it frustrating to no end. So, here is what I have concluded about the blue ink in the shade I like, manufactured by Pelikan: It's the best I have found. It serves my purpose well. And, unless and until I find something I don't like about it: I will use it exclusively. Thus concludes my review. :) --NDA

I have a cross Townsend fountain pen that writes extremely wet. This Pelikan ink Has the perfect drying time to solve this problem. This ink is a great pairing for wet pens

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

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.

Great for CRAFTING. Bottle was secure but package was damaged/torn.

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!

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.