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Has anyone out there had a better experience with this ink? I found it very dry and it put down such a fine line and was so light colored on paper that I could barely read what I wrote.

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I have a bottle that's about six months old, and I find it is very wet and puts down a wide line. I've used it in my MB 146, Waterman Executive (fine) and Waterman Kultur. I even had my 146 medium nib exchanged for a fine because of it and had Tim Girdler grind my Kultur from a fine to extra fine as I use it in the Kultur as my daily writer.

 

I really like this ink as I find it well behaved, a nice everyday use black-ish blue and bullet proof.

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I've had it in a 149 with a medium nib for many weeks. (It takes me ages to use up all the ink in the 149.)

It starts to write immediately and is not dry in that pen. I haven't tried it in other pens yet.

It is a dark blue/black.

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I just got a new bottle - or shoe...

 

I find it a little on the dry side, which is noticeable on slicker paper but less noticeable on cheaper paper that helps draw ink from the nib. Still a nice ink in my opinion. And the water resistance is fantastic.

 

By comparison, my Platinum pigment blue ink is definitely smoother, but a little less well behaved on cheaper paper.

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Hmm . . . I do use mostly ink resistant papers such as Rhodia and Claire Fontaine. I'll have to break out one of my old Pelikan's which are much wetter writing and see if I can enjoy this ink with one of those.

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Hmm . . . I do use mostly ink resistant papers such as Rhodia and Claire Fontaine. I'll have to break out one of my old Pelikan's which are much wetter writing and see if I can enjoy this ink with one of those.

I'm currently using it in a Pelikan with a fine nib. MB Permanent Blue works very well in this setup, balancing the slightly drier ink with the more liberally flowing pen. On slicker paper, it still doesn't "glide" but the feedback isn't too bad. I get a pretty rich blue line on the page - definitely not anything that would qualify as overly "light colored" as per your original post. Good luck!

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Runs well in my MB 145 EF nib. Flow is wet with good shading. Well behaved too. Using it with my Moleskine note book without any bleed through nor feathering. I like it a lot.

 

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